William Faulkner
One of the most dominant themes that emerge in the story is the conflict between the traditional and modern society, with Miss Emily representing the traditional society and her community as the modern one. Faulkner uses Emily's ancestral home in order to depict the old and fading memory of the traditional society in the eyes of the members of the modern society. In this example, the house becomes a metaphor synonymous to "old," "traditional," and fading memory of Emily's time.
Faulkner gives his readers a new twist to the meaning of "love," "honor," and "respectability" in the story. Honor and respectability given to Emily based on traditions and not due to the community's real respect for the woman. Love is given a grotesque meaning in the story, where Emily's love for Homer Barron led to his eventual death when it became apparent that the woman's feeling was left unreciprocated by the man.
The narrator, interestingly, represents the community in which Emily lives. As an outsider to Emily's life, the narrator provides an effective "lens" in which the readers can look at her life. Although full of biases against Emily, the narrator just reflects the antagonistic, yet sympathetic, nature of Emily's community, a community that is both fascinated and irritated at Emily's stubbornness to remain different and 'unreachable' to other people despite her poverty and loneliness in life.
4. Emily represents the woman who had limited options and choices in life: from being a young lady to an old woman, Emily lived behind the shadows of her father, who had given her no freedom to live her live as she wanted it to be. There is also evident conflict between males and females with the seemingly weak character that the narrator portrays Emily to be -- a woman who is in need of love, financial help, and support from her community. Emily's death is a manifestation that as a woman, she cannot live alone, simply because she does not have the emotional and physical strength to do so.
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In the opening paragraph, his detailed physical description of Jewel and him walking on the path exhibits what we soon see is a strong faith that language makes memory, perception, and action real. (Lockyer 74) She also notes that Darl is the character who speaks the most in the novel, thus showing his adherence to the value of language in his actions as well as his words. In doing so,
But the friction between her and her mother translated also to the society, to the 'good country people.' The good country people, represented by Manley Pointer, turned against her, victimizing her by using her own ideals and beliefs. Manley took advantage of her 'weakness,' being able to see through her tough self, knowing that within her, there is a part of her that wanted attention and love without pity.
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This feeling of anger and resentment is effectively illustrated through the conflict between Abner and the Negro, De Spain's helper. In this conflict, Abner is seen resisting the Negro's attempt to stop him from trespassing De Spain's home. Evidently, the Negro's status in life is much better than Abner, who has to toil very hard in order for him and his family to survive everyday. This fact infuriates Abner, and
Georgiana is beautiful and doesn't even think about the birthmark until her husband points to it and then goes into a deep state of misery because of that. In order to relief her husband of the misery, she agrees to drink the potion which leads to her death. Emily on the other hand is not so obliging. Though she has suffered enough at the hands of her father who wanted
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