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Social Conflict: "A Rose for Emily"
William Faulkner's 1930 short story, "A Rose for Emily" is about the sudden death of the last remaining person who had experienced the American South before the American Civil War, the most prominent old woman named Emily. Emily had been raised with agrarian and puritan ideas and was unable to adapt to the changing new generations. Her story is about social conflict with family, a lover, and the community.
The American South was primarily an agrarian, puritan, society with stern moral code and rigid doctrine (Fang, 2007). After the American Civil War, industrialization and commercialization changed the moralities and way of life for the south, but sex discrimination against women was still deeply ingrained. Agrarian societies were self-sufficient and family centered. In Puritism, women were condemned as the causes of all evil and troubles (Fang, 2007). They...
Emily's father ruled her life to the extent that relationships with others were forbidden. This is symbolized when the story speaks of a picture of Emily and her father:
"We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung door" (Faulkner, 2011).
Women and girls were totally dominated by the father. And, this is also a symbol of Emily being regarded as an old tradition (Fang, 2007).
The dominance of Emily's father caused social issues in respect that Emily lived in isolation and was never awarded the opportunity to learn how to handle relationships and understand the world. Emily's…
"When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less. The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." (Faulkner, 2011).
Emily had never learned to live life on her own or make any decisions for her own life. Even though, the society around her was changing, Emily struggled within herself to adapt to the changes. When her father died, she had the inability to accept the change.
After the death of her father, Emily started to break tradition to an extent. This is symbolized by, "At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer" (Faulkner, 2011). Emily had gone against tradition in respects that Homer, her lover, was a Northerner and not one from the agrarian society Emily had grown up with. Another symbol of the tradition was that Emily required
Rose for Emily For some people, letting go of the past is particularly difficult, whether they are holding on because their past was spectacular and wonderful, or, as in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the past is all they have. For Miss Emily Grierson, the title character in Faulkner's grotesque, haunting tale, the past offers a place of safety and respectability unavailable to her in the present. The townspeople
Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" William Faulkner's 1930 short story "A Rose for Emily" is about the sudden death of a town's most prominent old woman; the last remaining person who had experienced the American South before the American Civil War. She had the memories within her of a period of white domination and black subjection, which is mirrored in the relationship she had with her handyman. Money was power. Even
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