A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is not your typical story to say the least. One of the things that make this story more of a mystery is the fact that it is told in an objective 3rd person point of view. This point of view gives the reader very little insight, in an effort to encourage more of self interpretation from the reader. Something that is certain is that Emily killed her beloved homer, the only man that had had the opportunity to love her. Emily never truly learned how to have a relationship with someone of the opposite sex because of “all the young men her father had driven away” (Faulkner 208). Instead of going through the biggest change in her life and trying to learn how to become a couple, Emily decide to make things easier and kill her husband. She no longer had to hold a conversation and withstand the awkwardness; however she was still able to sleep next to him every night, for the rest of her life. Amanda Klepperich

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The Yellow Wallpaper

The protagonist in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is actually very sick despite what her husband and brother (two doctors) believe. She knows even in the beginning of the story that something is just not right about herself. She gets moved out to a empty colonial mansion that she is not comfortable with from the start. She does believe it is a beautiful place but she still does not like it. John her husband had moved her to this Manson in the belief that is it for her benefit. He truly believe she will be able to get all the rest and fresh air out in the strange lonely place that she needs to get healthy again. She loves to write which her husband insists will not help her get better faster. John does not want her thinking or exercising her brain at all. So to respect her husbands wishes she keeps him in the dark about her writings. The longer she is there the worse it is, she is getting sicker even thought her husband seems to think she is getting better. She attempts to express her feeling with her husband but he does not have the time for her foolishness and he is in denial to her condition. Toward the end of the story her illusions have become even stronger. At first she believes there is a woman in the wall shaking and moving around, crawling through the wall. This happens at night because during the day the woman or women are outside creeping around the garden and shaded lanes. She is unsure how many there are because she sees them everywhere. Is it because there is more than one or is it because the woman creeps so fast, she wonders. At the end, her sickness as become so bad that she is intensely involved or preoccupied and affected with madness, that she now believes that she is part of the wallpaper and only comes out during the day. She is intensely trying to get all the wall paper off the walls so she will not have to be put back in there when night falls. She has come to believe that her husband is the one that has been keeping her trapped in the wall and she was bound and determined to stop him.

The shifts of the plot change a little closer to the end in the last section starting at paragraph 18 or 20 when the protagonist starts to realize that she the woman in the wall.

A Rose for Emily

Trying to dig deep into this short story was hard and took some time to read and re-read. I have found that the narrator was someone who knew all the characters all so well. It made the story end up to be something that I had not expected. The narrator seemed like they where a single person. something all a long.
What Emily dose to Homer is unreal. She get poison to kill him but when others think she is trying to kill her self. After everyone started to know that he has gone and is missing the towns people started to wonder about Homer. The thing is Emily dose not say anything about him and gains weight and is not see out side her home as much. I feel as if Emily wanted him so much that she just had to kill him and keep him close.

The Story of an Hour

The significance of paragraph 5 is to help the reader realize that Mrs. Mallard is actual at peace with herself, her husbands death, and her surroundings. Despite the tragic news about her husband, she is still able to notice the beauty, and other life around her that still goes on. "Suspension of intelligent thought" (p.193 paragraph 8) simply means that Mrs. Mallard is expressing absolutely no thoughts at this very moment. Her mind is still.
When Mrs. mallard was thinking that she had loved her husband but also was aware she didn't love him all the time (paragraph 15). She new it didn't matter whether she loved him all the time or not, she was a strong and indepentant person.
The passage about Mrs. Mallard realizing that her life is now her own. All the days to come and she knows they will come fast (going through the seasons) but it will seem "life might be long." (paragraph 19). Because now Mrs. Mallard knows she will be alone.

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Sammy's background might have gave him some motivation to quit his job.
Sammy's family was not very rich in sense of " When my parents had someone over they get lemonade"(para. 14). So when he caught his eye on a fascinating girl in which he named "Queenie" he fell for her. He pictured her family as eating "herring snacks on toothpicks off a big plate"(para. 14) which meant that they were well off. There was three girls and she was the leader. "She had oaky brown hair that the sun and salt had bleached, she held her head so high her neck, coming up out of those white shoulders, looked kind of stretched but I didn't mind." (para. 4). So then when Lengal happened to see the girls he was upset. Lengel stated "Girls, this isn't the beach"(para. 13). They got upset and made a comment back and became embarrassed. In which turn upset Sammy, he had a thing for Queenie. So to catch her attention hopefully as she was walking towards the door he stated "I Quit"(para. 22). The girls kept on going, but now that he had started he had to finish. Ended up quitting and running out the door hoping that the girls would of been there. They were already gone. So he lost a job to impress a girl that he liked, in turn he ended up with nothing.

"The Story of an Hour"

"The Story of an Hour" tells the story of Mrs. Mallard's experience in learning of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard. Paragraph 5 is detailed in explaining the views outside her window as she encloses herself in her room. Although this description does not move the plot along, I feel that it does bring something to the story. This shows that although Josephine Mallard sits in a frame of mind described as, "suspension of intelligent thought," the world was still moving around her. There were events taking place. The beauty and the bustle of the outside world does not end, even as a person faces intense emotional grief, the kind of grief that can suspend all rational thought processes. The opposite of this state of mind occurs during Mrs. Mallard's revelation in paragraph 19. She, "breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday that she had thought with a shudder that life might be long." I feel this paragraph is the epitome of the story. Life can change overnight; life can change in mere minutes. The world continues on, as do we.

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"A Rose for Emily"

"A Rose for Emily" is told by a close neighbor that watches over Emily and the estate. The narrator makes it very interesting in the way that the story is told by keeping you in suspense. Emily only had her father and when he passed away there was nothing except the house. Men came when her father was alive but he drove all of them away. She had been alone for a short while and then met Homer. A man that took her out on Sundays in the buggy and made her feel good again. She must of known that Homer wouldn't of married her. "He liked men and drank with younger men in the Elks club, he was not a marrying man"(line 34-35). She was still in love with him no matter what and didn't want to lose him at any cost. She wanted to marry him but had some intuition that he might not. She had bought the arsenic before he had arrived the second time in which ended up killing him. She now had him forever and no one could take him away. She felt at peace when he was there and she could lay by him and know he wasn't going anywhere.

"A Rose For Emily"

The narrator of "A Rose for Emily" is an outsider within the community that Emily lives in. The narrator is someone that can see deeply in to Emily's life. This is seen in the great description of the letters Emily received in paragraph four of the first part of "A Rose for Emily". Only someone that knew Emily well could know such details of the letters received by Emily. The narrator also seems to know a lot of insight in to the happenings of the community as seen in section two where the Board of Aldermen meet and then go to Emily's house to spread the lime to rid of the smell. Because the narrator is an outsider looking in, it seems that we are given the story as the narrator remembers it, which is not in chronological order. As the narrator tells the story, each even triggers the memory of another event, which is then described. Also, by hearing the view of an outsider, it leads to immediate opinions, which may be negative, about Emily. However, by digging deeper those original negative opinions may become opinions of sympathy and understanding.
Emily poisons Homer. In paragraph three of section four, Emily and Homer seem to be preparing for a wedding. This shows that there are some true connections of love between the two. Although, we see a line of insanity in Emily's family, I do not believe this is necessarily the case for Emily herself. Three paragraphs before section three, we see that Emily was only left with her father's house after he passed away. In the next paragraph, Emily has trouble accepting her father's death and allowing him to be buried. The burial of her father was another loss to her. Poisoning Homer seems to be Emily's attempt to keep Homer in her life. By not allowing others to realize that he died, his body would not be taken away to be buried. This especially seemed to be the case in the last few paragraphs, where we see that Emily had laid next to Homer's deceased body. She truly just wanted to keep Homer in her life forever.

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"A Rose for Emily"

The narrator in “A Rose for Emily” is a member of the town in which Miss Emily lives, making the point of view first person. The narrator starts with the present day and how the funeral of Miss Emily has turned into a town event of sorts. This makes us wonder what events lead to that conclusion. He or she then goes on to allude to the “smell” that is coming out of Miss Emily’s house after her father had died and shortly after Homer Barron “deserts” her. This furthers our curiosity at what happened inside Miss Emily’s house and what sort of a person she was. Then the narrator goes all the way to the beginning of the story and finishes it in chronological order, helping us put together the other missing pieces. I feel that the point of view used adds to the mystery since the narrator can’t get into Miss Emily’s head nor does he or she know what is actually going on inside the house. The narrator just gives the general information and the town’s assumptions. I feel that Miss Emily was lonesome after the death of her father and wanted a new male companion. Homer might have had feelings for Miss Emily, but he had no intention of being tied down. When Miss Emily learned this she poisoned him so he would be with her forever.

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