The Story of an Hour

Paragraph five pays a lot of attention to the external images because, the author tries to show us for ever life taken there is life given. It makes the life spring out of the story with the way she writes that paragraph. In paragraph seven "suspension of intelligent thought" was the author's way of showing Mrs. Mallard feelings on the verge of crying. In paragraph 11 Mrs. Mallard says under her breath, "Free, free, free!" This is somewhat the opposite of the earlier passage i described. My favorite passage in this story all of paragraph 5 because it shows so much life and imagery in it.

A Rose For Emily

The narrator of William Faulkner’s story A Rose For Emily is not officially mentioned. However, there are hints throughout the story as to who the narrator is. The narrator appears to be a third party observer in the town. The narrator influences the story’s development by telling us what happened in the past and present, changing the tone to be sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Once Miss Emily dies and is put to rest, the townspeople enter her home and find her husband’s, Homer, dead body in her bed. It was obvious by the indent in her pillow with her hair on it that she had been sleeping next to her dead husband for years. It is apparent in the text stating, “Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer” (Faulkner), that she did this to Homer because she was ashamed of herself for loving him and knew their relationship would not be accepted because of her high social status and his low social status. So she killed him and kept his body so she could keep the relationship alive for herself in private.

My thoughts......

I found "A rose for Emily" to be a little hard to follow, but deeply interesting just the same. It strikes me as sad how Miss Emily obviously did not trust her lover to stay with her thus bringing about the 'necessity' of the arsnec purchase. It was very morbid but a good read none the less.
"Story of an Hour" was very good at touching on the verious stages of a new widow's grief. First is the shocked tears, followed by the painful seclusion stained with memories, and finally the realization of the freedom the death of her husband entails. And last but not least, the shock of seeing someone thought to be dead alive and walking proves too much for a weak heart, and she who rejoyced at her own freedom is actually the one who ends up granting her husband a freedom of his own.

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