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A’Leeyah Jackson
Professor Pam
ENG 1102
November 17, 2018
Essay #3
A Rose for Emily Critical Analysis
In the novel, “The Wild Palms”, William Faulkner once stated, "Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.”(Goodreads) He further clarifies for what reason he would do this in "A Rose for Emily"; despite the fact that the story isn't about him, indicating the subtle elements, the forlornness, and selfishness of a poor lady, Miss Emily. Miss Emily can't hold the possibility of death and endures extraordinary arrangements of refusal. After the passing of her father, the townspeople anticipated that she would be in a condition of melancholy, yet she was not. Rather, she continues to state that her father is extremely well and alive with her. Faulkner's concept of lamenting is clear in this story since he demonstrates his group of onlookers that it is smarter to acknowledge the demise than to overlook it. Faulkner's story happens in the South, amid a day and age of racial separation and major political change. By utilizing readers’ reaction feedback, a reader can analyze "A Rose for Emily" through the aspects of race found through human studies, gender found through anthropology, and through the secrets held within the story.
One can analyze "A Rose for Emily" by looking at race found through human studies. The South was once known for its extraordinary bias and prejudice. Faulkner's endeavors to pass on the inclusion of bigotry is clarified in "A Rose for Emily". “They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow” (Faulkner 34). This utilization of the critical term "negro" obviously demonstrates the author’s expectations. Faulkner describes the experience of the African-American is the day and era that this story was composed. He cleverly demonstrates how deprived of their identities these people were. By using the expressions "negro" or "nigger" to depict African-Americans, and our society were stripping them of their human qualities. This was tremendously severe to the point African-Americans were considered “property" to many. Faulkner's use of these slanderous terms likewise clarify the discriminations endured by African-Americans in the South. "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor –he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity” (Faulkner 33). One can plainly observe that Colonel Sartoris' goals were to implement governs in which African Americans were to be viewed as laborers, not individuals who mingled. This firm partiality of not enabling African Americans to be seen outside of work as individuals is plainly observed through "A Rose for Emily".
The secondary stage of analyzing "A R...
