A Rose for Emily Analysis

Gabi Kuhn 4B 11/13/12 1) What is the identify of view of the tarradiddle? The point of view of the story is a troika person. The amount of information the reader knows would be virtu exclusivelyywhat that of a common townsperson, since we do not find out right away what is unfeignedly going on inner of the house, or have a secret view into drip Emilys feelings. From this point of view, we see things as how they would start to a townsperson or viewer. 2) What does the title of the story suggest about(predicate) the townsfolks feelings toward Miss Emily?Why do they feel this way about her? (Or What does she represent to them? ) Is in that location anything ironic about their feelings? The title of the story suggests that the township have some sort of caring feeling towards her, since a flush is usu every(prenominal)y a symbol of care or love. They feel some sort of respect to her and her family, since they are the last remnant of the conventional sulfur and the only on es who embrace it the most. The town actually have a forbearance for her, because afterwards(prenominal) her tyro died, the association of her being luxuriouslyer class displace.Then, it was lowered the most when she started to spend meter with homing pigeon Barron because he was from the North and a day laborer, and thought Miss Emily should have been with someone of higher status, as she was brought up. 3) Describe and discuss the symbolism of Miss Emilys house. The dust all over the interior of Miss Emilys house symbolizes the conventional sulphur which Miss Emily continues to embrace mentally through her actions and visually through the looks of her house. The traditional south ways are being abandoned, but Emily refuses to go along.The traditional south ways are old, and Emily lacks to stay attached to them, so they ambuscade throughout her home in the visual form of old dust. The portraiture of her render symbolizes also that Emily does not want to adjust to the new times. He lived his life in the traditional times, and she did not want to believe that he was dead. The portrait symbolizes his everlasting presence in Emilys life, even after his death. 4) What is the role of the smell incident in the story. What other problems has Miss Emily caused the topical anaesthetic authorities?The role of the smell incident gives suspicion as to what it is in Miss Emilys house that is causing it. It gives suspicion that it is something like a dead physical structure, because only such things like a dead dead body can have such a permeating odor open to reach outside. Miss Emily also has not paid the taxes and thinks she is still authorize to the tax waiver that Colonel Sartoris gave to her, even though he is dead. 5) How do the townspeople know what they know about Miss Emilys life? What is the etymon of their information? The townspeople know what they do about her house from when the Aldermen visited the inside of her house.They were the ones wh o saw how dusty and creepy it was inside of the Grierson house. They also get the attends wife to get in contact with her relatives, who then add and visit. They also know most of the information they know by just keeping track of her and seeing her do the things she does, such as bargain the poison, and buy the wedding gifts. They all find out by gossipmongering and sharing the things they see, especially the older women. 6) Consider the mixed quality of the townspeoples reactions to Miss Emilys failures. 7) What is the significance of Miss Emilys actions after the death of her father?Miss Emily tried to keep the body of her father with her in her house. This signifies that she did not want to support the fact that he was dead. She was lonely, and did not want him to go too, like her lover that had recently left her. He was part of the last of the Grierson family and had shaped her whole life, so she did not want to let him go. 8) What role does Homer Barron play in the story ? Is there anything ironic about a match between him and Miss Emily? Homer Barron plays the newcomer to town who Miss Emily succeeds with in her ruesome plans for him. The irony in their race is that they are from different regions, which did not have a good human relationship back then, because of the Civil War. Homer was from the North, and represented the new innovation of the access future. Miss Emily has remained in the South all her life and wishes to stay practicing her set and not adjust to changes in life. It is also ironic that after all of the upbringing from her father sending away men who were not high enough in class for her, that she would choose Homer as her partner.Her father would have never approved of him. 9) Look closely at the act paragraph in section five. What does this paragraph suggest about the genius of the peoples memories of the past? 10) What is the horrible apocalypse about Miss Emily that the story ends with? How is this related to the overall meaning of the story? The horrible revelation about Miss Emily is that she actually used the rat poison to shoot Homer, and even more grotesque, she kept his body frozen in time so that he could stay with her forever.We also find a time-honored hair from Miss Emily, which means that she laid down next to the body in the bed for her own satisfaction. This is related to the overall meaning of the story because it shows how Miss Emily was determined to live life and have things the way she precious them, and she didnt care that the times were changing or that her actions were socially unacceptable. She lived the recumb of her life devoted to the traditional ways of the south, and did not want to accept any changes.