Response To William Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily”
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“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is an excellent story. The narrator, a non-participant, through a third person point of view communicates the story of Emily Grierson. Personally, I like this point of view, because it allows me to see the characters from a broader perspective. Faulkne ....
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.... Miss Emily’s funeral is all of the townspeople of Jefferson. None were immediate family. Instead, they were all there for their own reasons. “The men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”(26). As the story unfolds, the reader learns of all of Miss Emily’s hard times. These hard times include losing a father who was the only man who ever really loved her and falling in love with a man (Ho ....
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