Now I want to write a little about "A Rose for Emily", a short story written by William Faulkner. Prof. Hugh Egan, one guest lecturer from Ithaca College when I was at UGM assigned us to read this short story to discuss in one class--Cultural Eras. Emily is from an aristocratic family that is still inclined to her aristocratic ancestors, forgetting the fact that she no longer lives in that era anymore. Her fussy father who has too high self-respect tends to show objection to any man trying to be intimate to his only daugher--Emily; judging them as too low for Emily. Consequently, she is still single after she reaches middle-aged time.
Faulkner is a guaranteed name for a qualified work. Of course in this short story, people can find many moral lessons. However, in this writing, I just want to focus on one thing--Emily ends up in her loneliness.
When her father is still alive, no single man has guts to be close to Emily coz the father will always be able to find the weakness of him. This made Emily a recluse, an aloof person, not sociable at all. Until one day, there is a big project done in the neighborhood. One worker--Homer--seemed to have a special relationship with Emily. The neighbors think that finally Emily will marry Homer. But, again, her aunts from her father show disagreement with that relationship. And one day, suddenly Homer disappears without news.
Many years later, after Emily passes away, and the neighbors forced to enter the house, they find her dead body in one bedroom upstairs, showing hints that next to it, there was another dead body--Homer's.
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2 comments:
The last part of your synopsis is untrue. When they came to look in Emily Grierson's house after her passing, they found Homer Baron's body as a skeleton and next to it a hint of silver hair suggesting that she had laid by his side.
oh yes, you are right.
thank you for correcting :)
P.S.:
I just found this reply of yours. :)
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