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A Rose for Emily

Introduction

The style of William Faulkner in "A Rose for Emily", one of his short stories, has been focussed by this paper. Affecting the setting, characters, and themes' understanding of the reader, a variety of features of styles are provided in the text's language. This leads the story to become appreciable. Text context emphasizing, the literature and language's approach, that is integrated, the story is unlocked using tools of styles of discourse. Factors like history, culture, environment, social and readers are combined with the description of the textual and linguistic system. This approach provides importance to the voice of various study (Faulkner, 1930).

Wilderness's destruction, human heart's passions and time's themes, that were universal, of the American south, were the great themes founded by Faulkner. Industrial north's values, that were distasteful, its acceptance, and the civil war defeat, that was humiliating, the pride of the South was clunged by the myth arrays and the noble past with a sense, that was strong as seen as a nation by Faulkner. South's conflicts, that were historical, its myths and its traditions were the inspiration drawings for the fiction of Faulkner. Loss of values and alienation resisting individuals were potrayed, as the conditions of humans, by Faulkner. Limits of the region were surpassed by his work. The civil war of America, slavery and the identity of the South were the interest of Faulkner (Barber, 1973).

Description

A story about revenge of women, it examine conflicts in society and is about an individual asserting opposition to a community. Faulkner's story would have been very different indeed if he had written about Emily's love affair while it was going on rather than when she was already dead. The narrator in the story is a first person account and he represents the town, the tone is dignified and quiet. The narrative order skillfully allows the narrator to avoid giving away Emily's secret. He jumbles the order of events and throws out false interpretations. It is only in a second reading of the story do we realize the significance of Emily's refusal to acknowledge her father's death and let the town bury him, only in rereading do we understand the terrible smell from the house, the purchase of poison (Sullivan, 1971). Then there were the choice of rumor and surmise to heighten our expectations and to emphasize the contrast between the secret and public world, and the choices of ending the story with the discovery and the intense focus upon Emily's hair next to Homer's skeleton on the bed (quote), Iron Gray - indicating that even as an old women she slept with her dead lover, and indicating, too, the rigidity and power of Emily's character. Through his choices, Faulkner gets us into the experience of a legend, then of the terrible secret beneath the legend (Qun, 2007). The narrator tells the story as one of the townspeople, not a curious individual, and he shows a tone of respect for Miss Emily. His tome ...