A Rose For Emily5/7/2021
Perpetuity120, P 1 Noun If something is done in perpetuity, it is intended to last for ever.One of the most influential writers of the 20 th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories.
Most of Faulkners works are set in his native state of Mississippi. While his work was published regularly starting in the mid 1920 s, Faulkner was relatively unknown before receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since then, he has often been cited as one of the most important writers in the history of American literature. Like its parent genre, it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. Unlike its predecessor, it uses these tools not for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South. The first section opens with a description of the Grierson house in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the years, Miss Emily Griersons home has fallen into disrepair and become an eyesore among eyesores. The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant a combined gardener and cook had seen in at least ten years. After Emily and Homer are seen driving through town several times, Emily visits a druggist. The druggist asks what the arsenic is for since it was required of him to ask by law. Emily does not respond and coldly stares him down until he looks away and gives her the arsenic. When Emily opens the package, underneath the skull and bones sign is written, For Rats. Citizens of Jefferson believe that Miss Emily is going to commit suicide since Homer has not yet proposed in the beginning of section four. ![]() Upon his return, Homer is last seen entering Emilys home and then never seen again. ![]() The fifth and final section begins with Jefferson women entering the Grierson home. After they arrive, Emilys black servant leaves through the back door without saying a word. After Emilys funeral, the townspeople immediately go through her house. ![]() The room contains a mans tie, suit and shoes, and a silver toilet set which Miss Emily had purchased for Homer before his disappearance. Next to him is an impression of a head on a pillow where the townspeople find a single long strand of iron-gray hair. It is thus implied that Emily had killed Homer and had lain in the bed with his corpse up to her own death.
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