After Reading A Rose For Emily
I was shocked after reading the short novel A Rose For Emily, It’s William Faulkner’s great work. The more I read it, the more comes to my mind.
Now I’d like to talk about two things in the novel. The first one is its character and plot. The second one is its description of Emily’s gray hair.
The background of the novel is the civil war. It draws a vivid picture of the southern town, and I can see its clear plot and how the story ends. I think it catches my eyes successfully until I reach the end. Emily is actually a killer, but the author still wants to send her a rose, may be it’s his sympathy. The whole novel is carried in the author’s own point of view, only through this, can we breathe the true atmosphere in the story.
At the beginning of the story, the author says: When Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral, the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument. This sentence means the story will go on in the author’s memory. Miss Emily is a monument for her town. In fact, she is a symbol of old culture here. Someone showed respect for her, and someone showed curiosity for her. This is a description of people living in the town. The author wants to establish a southern heritage himself, and Emily became a descendant of an old rich family.
Later, the author begins to tell the story in his own eyes. Emily lived in the Jefferson time and she acted impolitely to the officers from the government, refused to hand in taxation gracefully. She stuck to her own opinion and way. What she thought about was her old days and trapped herself in a small community. But time passed quickly, and changed everything, even the stubborn Emily. Maybe Emily herself didn’t notice this before.
What attracts me most was Barron Homer’s death.
This man was Emily’s friend, or you can say it’s the one she longed for in life. But she killed him at last. Maybe it’s for his betrayal of love. The truth wasn’t told till the end of the story. We saw a gray hair near his decay body. This meaning really shocks me. I can see how the man was killed in despair. The novel says that one day, Emily went to a drug store for some poison—arsenic. At first, I thought this poor lady was about to take a suicide, and everyone around her thought so.
But our main character lived on well after that. So problems like ”what did she do to the drug?” occurred to me. Everyone was happy to see her again around the big house.
The story cannot stop here. Miss Emily became older and older. People seemed to forget Barron Homer then. Only till her funeral, did people discover the truth. Emily will not give up her traditional value and worked out a solution to this problem. She didn’t want to become the talk of this town, so she used the drug to kill the man at last!
I was shocked when reading about the last paragraph.
The man’s death was really a surprise for me, but it’s reasonable. Her gray hair became the evidence of her murder case, but she died at last.
I was shocked after reading the short novel A Rose For Emily, It’s William Faulkner’s great work. The more I read it, the more comes to my mind.
Now I’d like to talk about two things in the novel. The first one is its character and plot. The second one is its description of Emily’s gray hair.
The background of the novel is the civil war. It draws a vivid picture of the southern town, and I can see its clear plot and how the story ends. I think it catches my eyes successfully until I reach the end. Emily is actually a killer, but the author still wants to send her a rose, may be it’s his sympathy. The whole novel is carried in the author’s own point of view, only through this, can we breathe the true atmosphere in the story.
At the beginning of the story, the author says: When Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral, the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument. This sentence means the story will go on in the author’s memory. Miss Emily is a monument for her town. In fact, she is a symbol of old culture here. Someone showed respect for her, and someone showed curiosity for her. This is a description of people living in the town. The author wants to establish a southern heritage himself, and Emily became a descendant of an old rich family.
Later, the author begins to tell the story in his own eyes. Emily lived in the Jefferson time and she acted impolitely to the officers from the government, refused to hand in taxation gracefully. She stuck to her own opinion and way. What she thought about was her old days and trapped herself in a small community. But time passed quickly, and changed everything, even the stubborn Emily. Maybe Emily herself didn’t notice this before.
What attracts me most was Barron Homer’s death.
This man was Emily’s friend, or you can say it’s the one she longed for in life. But she killed him at last. Maybe it’s for his betrayal of love. The truth wasn’t told till the end of the story. We saw a gray hair near his decay body. This meaning really shocks me. I can see how the man was killed in despair. The novel says that one day, Emily went to a drug store for some poison—arsenic. At first, I thought this poor lady was about to take a suicide, and everyone around her thought so.
But our main character lived on well after that. So problems like ”what did she do to the drug?” occurred to me. Everyone was happy to see her again around the big house.
The story cannot stop here. Miss Emily became older and older. People seemed to forget Barron Homer then. Only till her funeral, did people discover the truth. Emily will not give up her traditional value and worked out a solution to this problem. She didn’t want to become the talk of this town, so she used the drug to kill the man at last!
I was shocked when reading about the last paragraph.
The man’s death was really a surprise for me, but it’s reasonable. Her gray hair became the evidence of her murder case, but she died at last.
