“a rose for Emily”

“A Rose for Emily”

By William Faulkner

Prepared by: Abdujalilov Ma'murjon

PLOT

Exposition:

• Initial equilibrium
• complication (Homer)
• Setting

-Small town
-South
-late 1800s, early 1900s
-Miss Emily’s house
Exposition
Conflict
Climax
Resolution

3. Characterization

(What are the characters like? Protagonist/Antagonist? Flat/Round? Static/Dynamic? Stock?)

-Miss Emily Grierson

-Miss Emily’s father

-Homer Barron

-townspeople

-the Negro

-the cousins

Conflict

( Man vs. Man; Man vs. Himself;

Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society;

Man vs. Supernatural )

-Miss Emily vs. her father
-Miss Emily vs. herself
-Miss Emily vs. Homer
-Miss Emily vs. townspeople/cousins

Climax

(The point of the story where the main conflict is resolved.)

-Miss Emily dies.

Resolution

(What does the reader learn after the climax?)

• The room is opened.
• Homer’s body is discovered.
• The townspeople put all the clues together.
• What is the “rose” for Emily?

POINT OF VIEW

• “When Miss Emily died, our whole town went to her funeral. . . .” -First person minor character, participant, unreliable

1) 1st person Character (major/minor? participant? reliable?)
2) 3rd person Narrator (omniscient/limited/objective)

TONE

• Conversational, gossipy.
• Mysterious
• Bizarre, strange
• Grotesque
• Southern Gothic

STYLE

Long, complicated sentences. (See ¶ 1)

-interruptions

-big, bookish words (coquettish, ¶ 2)

• Lots of description. (See ¶ 6)
• Flashbacks. (See ¶ 3)
• Not much dialog.

(The way the author tells the story.)

THEME

(What general idea or insight does the entire story reveal? Must be stated in general words & must apply to society in general and not just this story. May not state what the story is about.)

• People may resort to desperate

measures to prevent being alone

in life.

• Things, people, and events are not

always what they appear to be.

• Others?

SYMBOL

(An object that suggests more than its literal meaning. An object that points or hints at deeper meaning. Always look at titles, inanimate objects, names, colors, and locales.)

• The rose color?
• The title?
• The toiletry items?
• The pocket watch?
• The dust?

CRITIQUES

• The plot’s order and time frame
• Southern Gothic genre
• Her father’s influence – his repression leads her to date a man he would not approve of and then take control in the only manner possible
• Necrophilia – she loved and slept with the dead. In what ways?
• Passage of time – Emily’s denial of it