Essay Sample on A Rose for Emily: Exploring William Faulkner's Miss Emily, Language, and Themes

Introduction

In this paper, I will review the literature examination on the brief story-A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner which is a story that takes place in Mississippi in Yoknapatawpha. The author uses many forms of speech, language and themes to express his story where the narrator explores the situation where Miss Emily who has an overprotective father who makes her not to marry in her mid-20s and later dies leaving her at the age of 30. She later dies at the age of 74 and not being married. Many people attend her funeral as a result of the effect she had to the community and the narrator who is a fictional character in the town where Emily lived indicates that the people never knew Emily well.

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Part One: Emily's Lonely Fate

Part one talks about the reason why Emily died lonely being that her dad had turned down many men who wanted to marry her. So when her dad died Emily had no additional suitors, the town felt empathy for her and prevented her from paying any town taxes. This plot mainly focuses on the theme of love by the township towards Emily, (Brainy,2).

Part Two: The Mystery of Emily's Father

In Part Two, the storyteller talks about the pity the town members felt after the death of Emily's father where they stopped at her home for condolences but she told them that her father had not died. Later on, a stench is smelt from the house and the neighbors tend to think that Emily had kept her dead father in the house all this time. The narrator tends to think that Emily had decided to keep that which had taken away her marriage life to justify her actions.

Part Three: Emily's Isolation and Unexpected Union

Part three (Faulkner,21) talks about how Emily started to disappear from the social backgrounds and the change in her physical outlook which had changed. The author uses vivid description in describing her physical outlook and saying she was something to letdown and praise. This part also talks about a man, Homer, from the North who is in town to look into the construction of making side paths and the narrator says he was a man that was unfit for marrying or he was just gay. The town later notices Emily and Homer having time together and they are duly impressed by the union and despite Emily being financially unstable and the man who had working-class personality showed that they were not pairable for each other. At the end of this chapter, Emily goes to a medical store to buy arsenic which she says it's for killing rats but its probably a danger phenomenon showed in the story.

Themes Explored: Control, Consequences, and the Influence of Death

In the setting, it's clear that the people from the given town are not exposed to social changes and the control and consequences is a theme that has been explored in the entire story. Emily's father tends to control her life thus she is unable to live life according to her terms and marry a person she loves. It's her father who dies, then she is left alone and the consequences of her father's action haunt her emotionally and mentally. She becomes sad and finds life to be so unfair to her despite the people of the town watching her, (Amy, 7).

Another theme set out in this story is the influence of death. Emily is seen as a "skeleton" and has to do with the loneliness within her caused by the death of her dad. She later poisons Homer Barron and locks herself with him in the room in a quest that she does not want to lose her only love thus making him stay permanently. Emily later dies downstairs in a chair and she is buried with a very big funeral in the town to show how she had become a great ordeal in the town.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the town members finally break into the upstairs of the house, a room which had not been seen for four decades. The room is vividly described as a room prepared for bridal parties which had pink designs and some gifts which Emily had bought for Homer are seen in the room and shockingly the skeleton of dead Homer is lying on the bed with a pillow showing a face imprint on it indicating that Emily had slept there with the corpse. This shows the emptiness that Emily had after the death of her father and the loneliness caused in the period when Homer was away for six months.

Many aspects have been set up by William Faulkner although they do not depict the society functions in the South. One may further explore the story by use of criticized responses and discover other meanings to the story. The story is a vital section of literature because of the review of the results of the modification shown in the old South. This story is upright for the review of various parts of speech and the literature art in the drama and storyline created.

Works Cited

Aig123 Brainyquote.com. Web. 09 Mar. 2011. Retrieved from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/william_faulkner.html#ixzz1G22wBgTr&gt.

Faulkner, William. A Rose for Emily.

Amy Anderson: Study.com https://study.com/academy/lesson/a-rose-for-emily-by-william-faulkner-summary-theme-analysis.htm

Faulkner, William, John Carradine, and Anjelica Huston. A rose for Emily. Paderborn, De: Verlag F. Schoningh, 1958.