A RESPOND TO ‘A ROSE FOR EMILY’

5\10\2008

A RESPOND TO ‘A ROSE FOR EMILY’

A Rose For Emily, is a William Faulkner novel abotuh an interesting, strange charecter Emily Grierson, and her actions responding the relationship with her death father. Even though the story is written in 1930 it takes place during the time after the Civil War.In the story, Faulkner uses his charecters as a figure of this era and creates a suspicious, entertainıng story by narrating with a third person, who is around the neighbourhood.

When I started to read my first reaction to this story was realizing the time sequence. The story opens with the death of Miss Grierson and continues by giving us the setting of the house. When you keep on reading, you realize that it actually describes the past 25 years of Miss Emily’s life and how a noble person like her went down exactly like the big white house of hers that became ‘eyesore among eyesores’. What I like about this opening is the detailed description of the house and writer’s ingenious compare of the despair in Emily’s life and the fall she had from the aspect of the town.

From now on we start finding some clues about how it all comes to an end. We see that the traditions plays an important role in Emily’s life, when we meet the charecter Homer Baron, a northener construction worker eho Emily fell in love with. He is also a symbol of the postwar which explains the conflict between Noth and South. It is also not a coincidence for him to be a construction worker and came to South to fix the roads.All these used symbols mekes A Rose For Emily a deep and also a fastmoving story.

I don’t think there is anybody who like the surprise ending. This was my favourite part of the story. I loved that how the writer chose a curious, gossip neighbour from inside the town for to tell us the story. ll the ‘we’s in the story build a suspense and carries us to the end by collecting clues one by one at the same time with the narrator. And we all surprised and also unwind when we finf out she actually killed her lover Homer.

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