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- Title: Analysis of the Changing Portraits in "A Rose for Emily"/ Analyse Du Portrait Changeant Dans L'une Rose Pour Emily (Report)
- Author : Canadian Social Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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William Faulkner is a towering figure in American literature during the first half of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. In his acceptance speech he stated that it was the writer's duty to "help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past." (2) This approach to writing is certainly reflected in his work. Born in 1897, during the post-Civil War era of the South, his literary work captivates the emotional transition faced by southerners as they emerged from an era gone-by to a new, more modern period. The characters he creates exemplify the conflict that was embedded deep within the human spirit of southerners who lived in this changing society. Reading Faulkner's novels and short stories allow today's society to take a step back in time and capture a glimpse of one of the most evolutionary periods in American society. Using the decay and corruption of the South after the American Civil War as a background, William Faulkner produced his famous short story A Rose for Emily, which recounts the story of an eccentric southern spinster, Emily Grierson. Emily was born in an old southern aristocratic family, whose life was strictly controlled by her father. When she was young, she had many suitors, but according to her father none was suitable enough. During the time in which her father was alive, Emily was seen as a figure to be admired but never touched and she was revered as a goddess in the townspeople's eyes. When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Emily. Never being able to develop any real relationship with anyone else, it was like her world completely crumbled around her. Emily tried to hold on to his body and didn't permit anyone to bury his body. Although this was a sad moment for Emily, it was in a sense liberating. Emily set out to fulfill her desires of finding love and living her own life. She still held her head high in the tradition of her heritage until she met the man of her dreams, Homer Barron, a laborer from the north. But when she later realized that Homer was not serious about love and even threatened to leave her, she was seen buying arsenic, which the townspeople believed she would commit suicide with. After this, Homer Barron was not heard from again, and was assumed to have returned north. Though she did not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continued to gossip about her and her eccentricities, citing her family's history of mental illness. She rarely left her home and was heard from less and less. For the townspeople, she was very proud, odd and mysterious. No one knew how her life was exactly like. So after she died, the whole town went to her house because of curiosity, where in the bed of one room they found Homer's corpse and they also noticed Emily's hair in the pillow.