a rose for emily - summary, analysis, context, southern gothic literature

A report on a short story:

A Rose for Emilywritten by

William Faulkner

Prepared by: Marc Vener C. Del Carmen

Presentation Outline:

Context

William Faulkner

Image 1: Young William Faulkner

Image 1: Young William Faulkner

Image 2: Old William Faulkner

A Rose For Emily

Image 3: “A Rose for Emily” Cover 1

Post-Civil War/ Reconstruction Period


Image 5: Reconstruction Period 1

Story and Analysis

Title About the Title

Image 8: “A Rose to Emily”

Structure

StructureTime

Image 9: Emily on Window

StructureTemporal Shifts

Image 10: Emily on Mirror

Setting

Setting

Image 11: New Albany, Mississippi

Characters

Characters

Main/Dynamic Character

Image 12: Emily Grierson

Characters Static Characters

Image 13: Homer Barron

Image 14: Tobe

CharactersOther Static Characters

Plot Overview & Summary

Plot Overview

Image 15: Plot Overview

Plot OverviewSection One

Plot OverviewSection Two

Plot OverviewSection Three

Plot OverviewSection Four

Plot OverviewSection Five

Summary


SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

NarrativOrder

(Section, Paragraph)

Event

30II. 26,

27

• When Emily was 30, Emily’s father died (26)

• Emily refused to accept her father’s death. When the town people forced to bury her father, she broke down. (27)

30~32 III. 30

• Emily was sick for a long time.• In the summer after the Emily’s father, the

town had a contract for paving the sidewalks. (30)

Image 17: Emily and Father

SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

NarrativOrder


Event

32III. 30,

33

• Emily acquainted with a day worker, Homer Barron (a Yankee—a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face). (30)

• The town ladies started to gossip about the love affair. “Poor Emily.” (33)

32III. 34 -

40• Emily bought rat poison.

32 IV. 43• The town people thought Emily would kill

herself.

Image 18: Arsenic

SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

NarrativOrder


Event

32III. 34 -

40

• Town people disagreed and gossiped.• ”She will persuade him yet”, because

Homer Barron had remarked—he’s not a marrying man (IV. Paragraph 43).

• Some town ladies interfered, and for the Baptist minister to called upon her.

• The next Sunday, Emily and Homer again drove about the street. The following day, the minister’s wife wrote to Emily’s relations in Alabama. (IV. 44)


SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

Narrative Order


Event

32 IV. 45

• Emily went to the jeweler’s and order a man’s toilet set in silver, with the letter H.B. on each piece. She also bought a complete outfit of men’s clothing, including a nightshirt. The town people believed that “They are married.”

32IV. 46,

47

• The town people were surprised that Homer Barron had gone. (46)• ”Within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the

Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening”. (46)• "And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for

some time." (47)

SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

NarrativOrder


Event

32II. 15 -

24

• Emily’s sweetheart “the one we believed would marry her had deserted her.” (15)

• The smell developed. After Emily’s neighbor’s complaint, Judge Stevens (80 years old) investigated the source of the smell without result. (15-24)

40I. 2

IV. 49

• She give china painting lessons to the ladies (daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris’s contemporaries) for 6-7 years. (IV. 49)

• In 1894, Colonel Sartoris remitted the taxes of Miss Emily Grierson. (I. 2)

Image 19: Grierson’s House 1

SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

Narrative Order


Event

52 II. 14 • Colonel Sartoris died—Emily was 52.

52~54 I. 5• Emily was about 52~54. Emily stopped given

china painting lesson to the town ladies—Since that time, nobody visited the Grierson house.

52~54 IV. 50

• The second generation became the backbone of the town. They stopped sending girls to Miss Emily’s painting class.

• “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.”


SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

NarrativOrder


Event

62 I. 4-14

• Emily was 62 (“a small, fat woman in black, . . . . She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.”)

• The town aldermen asked Emily Grierson to pay taxes, but she refused. (I. 4-14)

74IV. 48,

53

• Emily died at the age of 74. (48)• “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in

a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldlywith age and lack of sunlight.” (53)

Image 10: Emily on Mirror

SummaryTime

(Emily’s Age)

Narrative Order


Event

74I. 1-2V. 55

• The town people went to Miss Emily Grierson’s funeral. (1-2) • Miss Emily was put “beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the

crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier. . . .” (55)• Two female cousins came to the funeral. (55)

74 V. 56-60

• After the funeral, the town people intruded into Emily’s bedroom, which no one had seen in forty years.

• Emily’s room was furnished as for a bridal, with the curtain of rose color. And they found a man’s body lay in the bed, with a long strand of iron-gray hair.

Summary

Image 21: Emily and Dead Homer

Themes

Image 22: Tradition vs Change

Themes

Image 23: Living in the Past

Themes

Image 24: Death of Old South

Themes

Image 22: Tradition vs Change

Point of View

Point of View

Image 25: Townsmen

Point of View

Image 26: Rose

Point of View

Image 27: Emily’s Actions

Symbols

Symbols

Image 12: Emily Grierson

Symbols


Symbols

Image 14: Tobe

Symbols


Resolution

Resolution

Image 28: Hands

Southern Gothic

Literature

Southern Gothic

LiteratureImage 29: Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic Literature

Image 29: Southern Gothic

Gothic Style

Image 30: Example of Gothic Literature

Southern Gothic Literature

Image 31: Southern Gothic 2

Southern Gothic – William Faulkner – “A Rose to

Emily”

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a rose for emily - summary, analysis, context, southern gothic literature

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