A Rose For Miss Emily

A Rose For Emily
by William Faulkner

1. Personal Opinion
   At the beginning of the story, I thought it would be one along a more historical line, but of course, it was just part of the setting. I enjoyed the story, but at a certain point it turned predictable. The story is told "backwards" a technique that is used in the modern day too, where the ending is actually the beginning. In my opinion the story was interesting mostly when everything starts unveiling itself. The only disappointing thing in this story was how predictable it turned out to be. If the author would've added some more elements maybe I could have been surprised. Still, I enjoyed it.
   
   
2. Character Relation: Miss Emily Grierson

I believe that Miss Emily, who is the main character of the story, portrays the emotion/feeling of anger. As we discussed in class, anger can be shown through many ways, and one of them is the suppression of the feeling itself. In the story, Emily was a lonesome woman, stubborn and almost rude. But I think she was this way, because of the life she had to live. She grew up alone with her father, in a town full of gossip. Emily never got married, never had any children. And she suppressed it, all of it. Finally, when she found someone who she thought would love her, she just liberated the anger, and out of insecurity and fear, murdered him.

3. Miss Emily's Stages

My first reaction when the aldermen went to Miss Emily's house and she kicked them out, was that she was just standing her ground since after all, General Sartoris had a deal with her father. Then as I kept reading I realized she was an ill mannered old lady. She had been this way since she was young, like when her father died and she denied it. Maybe she felt grief, but maybe she just did not want to accept the fact that she was probably going to be in ruins, for everyone knew without her father she would not prosper. Finally, I got convinced that Miss Emily felt much pain and anger. These emotions were proven when she killed the man she said she loved without feeling any remorse.