A Rose For Emily

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A Rose for Emily

September 3, 2004

EN 132B

Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” Literature the Human Experience: Reading and

            Writing.  Richard Abcarian and Marvin Klotz.  Bedford/St. Martin’s.  Boston:

            New York, 2002. 666-672

Literary Elements

In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner’s use of language foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story.  His choice of words is descriptive, tying resoundingly into the theme through which Miss Emily Grierson threads, herself emblematic of the effects of time and the nature of the old and new.  Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the near distant past and leads on to the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies.

In the opening characterization, many descriptive words foreshadow the ultimate irony at the climatic ending:  “her skeleton was small and sparse,” “she looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water ...

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