William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily- focuses on the life of Emily Grierson and how she became a monument and symbol of tradition in her town. As a young respectable black woman, Emily ... after Homer's death and became a mysterious recluse to the townspeople - a woman holed up in a once magnificent house that occasionally omitted a strange smell and whose only visible resident was a black butler. Faulkner uses symbolism and diction to convey Emily's dynamic changes as she ages, showing her unwillingness to accept new ways of life and her need to preserve the things she holds ......

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... liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man. (126) The comment is not, of course, Faulkner's, nor is it entirely a paraphrase of Homer's original comment, as Blythe suggests it is. The statement is the narrator's, and that part of the sentence most indicting--the part between ... can do for ourselves is refuse to be part of it, remaining skeptical even to the point of disbelief. "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we g...

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... his woman. Yet he does not invite her to live with him. One time when Hugh is absent, Geary forces himself upon Coonardoo, and when Hugh returns he vents his fury on her by throwing her on a fire. Although at times the romantic relationship of Hugh and Coonardoo seems loving and important, it is very much overridden and marginalised by the ... ...

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