A Rose for Emily Thesis Assignment PDF

Running head: A ROSE FOR EMILY THESIS
A ROSE FOR EMILY THESIS
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A ROSE FOR EMILY THESIS1
‘A Rose For Emily’ by Falkner is a popular and successful short story due the fact
that it has intricately complex chronology. Beside this, this story has a unique narrative
perspective while telling the story. Initially the readers can find that it is the voice of the
narrator himself who is speaking for the people of entire town to be impressionable, young
male but a close analysis alters this realisation (Gale). The readers gradually realises that the
narrator can never be clearly identified as young male or female. The perspective of the
narrator can be better assumed by the close examination of the tone where the narrator uses
foist person as we. At some points, this narrator changes his or her perspective about the main
character Miss Emily in the narration. The narrator of this story is not a single person but
different people from whose point of view the character of Miss Emily becomes implicit to
the readers.
The story begins with the town people’s attending the funeral of Miss Emily when the
men of the town Jefferson had term her death to be a great fall. They compare Miss Emily
with a monument “alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, duty, and a care; a sort of
hereditary obligation of the town” (Mays 309). This description arises a number of question
regarding the reputation as well a respectability of Miss Emily in the town. However,
generally the narrator demonstrates sympathy to Miss Emily by never convicting her actions.
Often unabashedly, often grudgingly, the first person narrator esteems her capability to
practice her aristocratic bearings to subjugate the people of the city council as well as to buy
poison. It is her aristocratic aloofness that attracts the people of the town more and she
remains in their talks all the time.
However, the omniscient narrator of this short story takes an empathetic voice to
criticise Miss Emily for not paying the tax as well as her increasing association with the low
class people (Matta). The narrator is neither carer of Miss Emily nor a well-wisher but
demonstrates her fall from a high class aristocrat woman to love a Yankee. Ironically, the