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An 8 page research paper that examines Faulkner's classic short story, "A Rose for Emily." The writer examines the thoughts of several scholars on the story, and also from a feminist perspective that considers the role that societal expectations played in the murder of Homer Barron. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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pressures that both imposed upon her. The reader learns about Emily second-hand from an anonymous narrator who relates her story in much the same way that it must have told
a thousand times over back fences and on side porches in the town of Jefferson. As Wallace (1992) points out, this short story concerns, among other things "gossip, and
Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves" as we, too, gossip about Miss Emily by reading the narrators version of her life story. However, it is through
this distancing from the protagonist that Faulkner also conveys to the reader something of the social expectations of the town people through the narrators voice. As the following discussion will
show, collectively, these factors come together and convey to the reader the pressure that drove Emily Grierson to madness and murder. The story opens and closes with Emilys funeral.
Her story is told in flashbacks by the narrator. What becomes evident is that the towns people were well aware for a very long time that Emily was abused by
her father?if not physically, then certainly mentally. This is evident when the narrator speaks of how Emily reacted when her father died, and refused to admit for three days that
he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had
driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her" (Faulkner, 2000). This passage chronicles what may have
been the first occurrence in Emilys life of what became an overriding obsession?her desire to control time, to stop its passage at a point where she could tolerate her situation.
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