2. A Rose for Emily was
written by an American
author William Faulkner.
The first publication was
in April 30, 1930.
3. This short story is considered one of the most
important American southern gothic short story.
The Gothic fiction it is written a subject as a social
issues and culture of the America south.
5. Emily Grierson
She is the main character,, Miss Emily was a very
perverse woman, atormented continuously by her
father. After her father died, she said during three
days “he is not dead”. These is the time when miss
Emily started the negation of the change in the
world.
6. Miss Emily was raised in heart of an aristocratic
family. These story was told after the Civil War. The
writer felt influence of the time and he reflect the
pride, the negation to change, to the loss of
established social differences in southern north
America
7. Emily is the former aristocratic culture, who were
conservative and closed to the economic, social and
racial equality.
8. We can speculate about
why Miss Emily killed
Mister Homer, but does
not exist a very specific
reason.
9. Homer Barron
Homer Barron represent They had had a very
everything that in the scandalous relation ship. At
culture of Emily is the fist time the people was
prohibited. He was a happy for Miss Emily , but
construction foreman of that was before the people
the north, the first real love started to talk about were
of Emily. Homer Barron came from.
10. Tobe
Tobe was the servant of Emily‟s house. He was the
only connection of Emily with the out side world, he
goes out every day to the market with the shopping
cart, but he decides to keep her with the time
stopped in a lie. Tobe is an important character , he
covers Miss Emily‟s murder and represent the people
of the north , who were freed from slavery through
the civil war.
11. Tobe disappearance represents the culmination of
slavery, and with miss Emily the entire ideals of the
aristocratic society died.
13. Includes the time, location, and everything in which a story
takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a
story.
Some settings are relatively unimportant. They serve simply
as a decorative backdrop helping the reader to visualize the
action and adding authenticity to the story. Other settings are
closely linked to the meaning of the work: the author focuses
on elements of setting to create atmosphere or mood.
14. Place: Town of Jefferson
Miss Emily „s house.
The main situations were on
miss Emily house and the
writer focus in the valuables
details inside de house.
Time: after seventies.
15. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)
The town of Jefferson as a urban society moving into the
industrial period.
Before seventies, economic based on agriculture and slavery.
After seventies, economic based on industrial and abolition.
16. There was two perspective related to the American
Civil War.
Homer Barron; new generation and abolition.
Miss Emily; old generation and slavery.
Also, William faulkner as a southerner was part of
the perspective of Miss Emily.
17. “ It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been
white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled
balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies,
set on what had once been our most select street. But
garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated
even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss
Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish
decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-
an eyesore among eyesores. “
18. “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 moldy with age and lack of
sunlight.”
19. “The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with
pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie
everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon
the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights,
upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the
man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that
the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if
they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale
crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded;
beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.”
20. “They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall
from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It
smelled of dust and disuse a close, dank smell. The Negro
led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy,
leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the
blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was
cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose
sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in
the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the
fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father.”
