This is why Homer is killed: he has lied to Emily and to the townspeople, and his deceit is punishable by death (at least, so it seems to Emily -- if Blythe is correct in his analysis). This is why the tension that exists between Emily and the community comes to the forefront in the first place: "Every human lives in a social environment and is influenced by surrounding community, but as individual he also possesses his unique character. hen the two come into conflict, it surely will cause great confrontation" (Fang 22). The conflict, here, is one of truth and falsehood -- mask and revelation; false face and real face.
Emily's real face, made-over as much as possible, is finally revealed. But in true Southern manner, it is not revealed until she is safely dead and buried in the ground. There can be no cause for hurt feelings or…...

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Works Cited

Blythe, Hal. "Faulkner's a ROSE for EMILY." Explicator, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Winter

1989), p. 49-50. Print.

Fang, Du. "Whom Makes a Devil out of a Fair Lady? -- an Analysis of the Social Causes

of Emily's Tragedy in 'A Rose for Emily.'" Canadian Social Science, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2007), p.18-24. Print.

Though my loneliness certainly isn't as extreme as Emily's, and I do not think I would want to sleep next to a corpse for years instead of finding people to interact with in the outside world, the sense of being cut off from those around you and kept in a separate bubble is something I can relate to. There are times when I have exactly this feeling as a student in a foreign country -- no matter how nice and understanding people are, there are certain moments where I just don't fit in or I have no idea what's going on, and I imagine that Emily must have felt this way a lot, too. It would have been much worse to feel this way in your own town, full of people from the same place as you and that you had known all of your life, and the powerful…...

The "original paraphernalia" (Jackson 618) from the very first occasion was lost "long ago" (618). The people in this small town instinctively know that something is wrong with the lottery but still they feared "to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (618). Here the people do not know why they gather every year; they only know that they have done it for a very long time. They have allowed themselves to become comfortable with the idea even if it is an awful one. The lottery is accompanied by a "perfunctory, tuneless chant that had been rattled off each year" (619) and a "ritual salute" (619). In addition, the people gather with fear before each lottery; the children cannot fully enjoy summer because they know what it means. The people are creatures of habit because "no one likes to upset even as much tradition…...

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Works Cited

Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Cassill, R.V. ed. New

York W.W. Norton and Company. 1981.

Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Cassill, R.V.,

ed. New York W.W. Norton and Company. 1981.

Rotten but Not Forgotten: Cherished Corpses in illiam Faulkner's Short Story "A Rose for Emily"
A streak of insanity seems to run through the once-distinguished Grierson family of illiam Faulkner's mythical town of Jefferson, Mississippi, within his short story "A Rose for Emily." Near the beginning of the story, a surviving, never married Grierson daughter, Emily, is shown demonstrating her extreme reluctance, even three days after her overbearing father's death, to allow his body to be removed by authorities from the house:

The day after his death . . . Miss Emily met them at the door . . . 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. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried…...

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Work Cited

Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction,

Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 4th Compact Ed.

New York, Longman, 2005. 29-36.

Along with her psychological behavior, her social behavior was also completely absurd and she proved this when she poisoned Mr. Homer arron, a Yankee with whom she started dating after Mr. Giererson's death. Faulkner has emphasized on racism and addressed Homer as "a big, dark, ready man with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face," in other words he was a nigger. Emily was aware of the fact that Homer arron who didn't meet up the measure of her father's expectations and society could feel bad about it but still Homer was her obsession and she couldn't think of letting her love go for any reason. People were surprised to see a man in her life and considered a disgrace for town as she was openly dating with him. They were curious about the deal Emily would make with him, either she would marry him or he…...

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Bibliography

Morton, Clay. "A Rose for Emily': Oral Plot, Typographic Story," Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative 5.1. 2005.

Ruthman, Davina, "A Chronology of William Faulkner's a Rose for Emily," GRIN Verlag, 2007, Amazon.com

Werlock, H.P.Abby, "The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story," Second Edition, New York, Infobase Publishing, 2009.

Rose for Emily
illiam Faulkner was born, raised and wrote in the South and his old Southern roots are shown in his writing. One of the earliest nationally published examples of this writing is A Rose for Emily. In this short story, Emily represents the South while her lover, Homer Barron, represents the North. Though Homer's description is short, his connection with the North is obvious. Miss Emily's long description is more subtle in some ways but mirrors the Old South in a number of aspects.

The work of illiam Faulkner (1897 -- 1962) grew from his Southern roots. Born in Oxford, Mississippi only 32 years after the Civil ar, Faulkner was also raised in Oxford as a member of an old Southern family and wrote most of his works on a farm in Oxford (Nobel Media AB, 2012). Faulkner spent his life creating characters that represented "the historical growth and…...

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Works Cited

Beck, J., Frandsen, W., & Randall, A. (2009). Southern culture: An introduction, 2nd edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Faulkner, W. (2012). Selected short stories. New York, NY: Modern Library.

Gwynn, F.L., & Blotner, J.L. (1995). Faulkner in the university. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.

Nobel Media AB. (2012). William Faulkner - Biography. Retrieved on October 12, 2012 from www.nobelprize.org:  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html

Rose for Emily" Emily takes the life of her lover, Homer arron, by poisoning him with arsenic. y doing so, she erases any hope that she has for getting married and having children. Most analyses of the work focus on Emily as a victim to explain her motives for murder. However, Judith Fetterley takes a more novel stance by emphasizing Emily's intelligence and ability to turn discrimination against the perpetrators. Given Emily's strong independent nature, Fetterley's view holds the most merit for explaining Emily's murder of arron.
Symbolism associated with description of a picture of Emily's father, "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 front door" is highly illustrative of the lack of control in Emily's life.

A slender figure in white represents a…...

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Bibliography

Beaty, Jerome, Booth, Alison, Hunter, Paul and Mays, Kelly. The Norton Introducton to Literature, Shorther Eighth Ediction. New York: Norton, 2002. 425-432.

Blythe, Hal. "Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'" Literature for Composition. 4th Ed. Sylvan Barnet, et al. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. 191-193.

The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father's death they began the work. The construction company came with riggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee -- a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face (Faulkner 53).

It is Emily's hanging onto the past that is the resounding feeling throughout Faulkner's story. The story begins where the reader learns of her death, but the reader is then taken on her journey, her slow giving in to death. In fact, Faulkner describes her as "bloated, like a body submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue" (Faulkner 49), giving the idea of a woman who has physically lived life, but yet is still hanging on, floating in life, motionless and suspended in a world that also won't let her…...

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Works Cited

Booth, Alison. & Mays, Kelly J. Wm. Faulkner. A Rose for Emily. The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter Tenth Edition). W.W. Norton & Company; Shorter Tenth Edition

edition, 2010. Print.

Getty, Laura J. "Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'." The Explicator, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 23-4.

Summer 2005.

Point-of-view is extremely important in any story, as who is telling the story can greatly affect what gets told. If Faulkner had chosen Emily or her servant as the narrator, the story would have been very different, and readers would have known what was going on in Emily's house much sooner, but since Faulkner chose a townsperson, the secrets of Emily's disturbed mind remained hidden until the final scene where the rotting corpse of her second suitor is discovered in her bed. The story is much more entertaining this way, because finding out about Emily too early would have made the rest of the story dull and somewhat uninteresting.
Once they make the gruesome discovery, not much more analysis about Emily is needed. Each person in the town had opinions and beliefs about Emily, and the final scene lets the townspeople know whether their opinions and beliefs were correct. The…...

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Bibliography

Faulkner, William (2007) a Rose for Emily. Enotes.com.  http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/

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 who once held her aristocratic family in reverence has morphed into a crass and detached place, and Emily is the victim of this passage of time and values. Faulkner presents Miss Emily sympathetically and the reader feels for her as she powerlessly watches time pass and the town's respect for her dwindle, an inescapable indictment of the "new" values of the South.

Miss Emily Grierson was born into an aristocratic family in the post-Civil War South. Her family's house was on…...

Miss Emily is different, because she has none of these trappings of womanhood, and so, the other women concern themselves with her life and plight. They feel sorry for her, and pity her, but they do not take any steps toward befriending or understanding her. Faulkner writes, "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" (Faulkner). The women are not humanitarians, which is another clue to their place in society. They do not seem themselves as caring or helpmates, they see themselves as aloof and removed from the situation, and no one puts out a hand to Miss Emily in friendship or concern. They leave those details to the men, who ignore them entirely. In fact, these southern women are not very nice, and Faulkner makes that very clear…...

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References

Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Fu Jen University. 2005. 26 June 2007.  http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/Rose/el-text-E-Rose.htm

First of all, there is the issue of Homer Barron's ancestry. He is a northerner, living in a Southern region that was still smarting from its loss in the Civil War. The Yankee also worked with and was obviously friendly with his crew of black laborers. He also stood to profit from construction in the south, another fact that would have caused great consternation among the townspeople.

In addition, the townsfolk, especially the older ones, whispered about how Miss Emily was violating the principle of noblesse oblige. In exchange for the social prestige that the town had accorded her, the townspeople expected a certain amount of social responsibility from their Miss Emily.

This includes being aware of her class and social background. It certainly did not bode well for Miss Emily, and by extension the town, that Emily was cavorting with a Northerner who was also a day laborer. Miss Emily had…...

They state in the story he was known to like men, and that he would often be found in the company of other men. It is evident she was in live with him, and actually it appears that he loved her in a way too, but since she could not have him completely then he would have to die.
Explain the conflict in Emily's life? There was a conflict of love and acceptance. She appears to want the love that was denied her when her father was alive. Her father would alienate her, and she did not really have any opportunities to develop a loving healthy relationship. Emily also has conflicts over the way she believes her life should be lived and they way that society believes that she should live her life. Emily refused to conform and follow the rules i.e. she did not want the number put on…...

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References

Faulkner, W. (year). A Rose for Emily. Retrieved from  http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb05/workshops/fiction/faulkner1.asp

Rose fo Emily chonicles the life of a woman named Emily Gieson as naated by the people in he town. The shot stoy by William Faulkne focuses on the chaacte itself, and Faulkne used the townsfolk as his 'eye' in chaacteizing and descibing Emily to the eades. The voice that naates in the shot stoy is but a epesentation of the people's collective sentiments fo Miss Emily. In the stoy, Emily was chaacteized as a vey pivate, stubbon woman, a woman who once belonged to a noble, ich family of the South, and who expeienced he downfall afte he fathe died, leaving he alone with he faithful Nego sevant. Thoughout the stoy, the naato tells us the vaious issues that became the cente of eveybody's attention in Emily's small town. The gadual decease of the flow of income in Emily's household, the deteioating state of he house, and the…...

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references as the narrator tells us of her affair with Peter the professor, and of her great affection for the old man. The story never seemed to be romantic in tone, except for the narrator's expression of her feelings for Peter. However, the sudden change and realization of the narrator makes us realize that the story is a love story after all, and that the narrator's story is a deep contemplation of her love for Peter, whether her love for him was genuine or somehow misguided. The story finds resolution after the narrator leaves the ole man, Peter, behind after her sudden realization of her love for him (which is actually a love fed by insecurity and longing).

Later the reader will discover the smell is the rot from corpses, first Miss Emily's father, then her dead suitor. But the women's comments, even when the reader is unaware of the corpse in Emily's home suggest that the women regard Tobe as less competent than a female run home, with a husband and wife -- here, Tobe is regarded in their eyes as a symptom of Miss Emily's eccentricity and solitude, but still not as a character himself.
Faulkner does not present the reader with Tobe's feelings about Miss Emily and her father's oppression of his race or himself, though. Even when Tobe acts, it is in a very muted and decorous way. "hen the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the…...

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Works Cited

Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." 1930.  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html 

Stafford, T.J. "Tobe's Significance in 'A Rose for Emily.'" (1970): 87-89. Reprinted in Readings on William Faulkner. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998. 74-77.

Rose for Emily: Resources." 2005.  http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Eegjbp/faulkner/r_ss_roseforemily.html 

Watkins, Floyd C. "The Structure of 'A Rose for Emily.'" Inge, www.mcsr.olemiss.edu (1970): 46-47.