Summary:
First published in 1930, William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is about Emily Grierson, a Southern woman who was irreparably shaken by the fall of the Confederacy and the ensuing changes that took place in her life. Raised to be a lady of stature and nobility, and instilled by her father with the belief that no man in the area was worthy of marrying her, Emily was alone after her father's death. Following the end of a courtship that her family and the townspeople opposed, Emily lived reclusively until her death, holding on to what she knew best and struggling with her loneliness.
Charles Koen
Professor Kreischer
English 102-S2
28 June 2005
Fallen From Grace
Emily Grierson, a woman of stature and nobility of the once proud South; transformed to a mere peasant, through the fall of the Confederacy and the changes that ensued. Tragic in a sense, the story of her life as told from the author; William Faulkner, in his short story - "A Rose for Emily." (Faulkner 74-79). First published in the popular magazine of his time in 1930, The Forum; Faulkner tries to maintain her self image throughout the story through the narrators eyes as being repressed in nature through her upbringing in society prior to the war and the circumstances of the times as they unfold - while struggling to fill a void of emptiness inside.
Born and raised in a grand house on a once grand street in.....
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