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This is a 6 page paper comparing the critical perspectives of two analyses of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”. Renee Curry and Celia Rodriguez both analyzed the components of distance in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”. Curry however highlighted the importance of the fact that a gender was not assigned to the narrator and this provided a distance for the reader in regards to the perspective presented in the work and instead limited the narrator’s ability to narrate actions and events within the story. Rodriguez acknowledges the presence of the “unnamed” narrator but analyzed the aspect that the characters within the story represented either elements of the present or the past and because of this division, the readers felt further distanced from the characters who lived in the past; especially Emily. The analysis of these two criticisms probably best highlights how Faulkner successfully managed to distance the reader from the mystery which provided an additional sense of curiosity in the reader, and the townspeople, as to the mystery within Emily’s house, by using multiple elements of his narrative and the subtle use of time and perspective.
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of the fact that a gender was not assigned to the narrator and this provided a distance for the reader in regards to the perspective presented in the work and
instead limited the narrators ability to narrate actions and events within the story. Rodriguez acknowledges the presence of the "unnamed" narrator but analyzed the aspect that the characters within the
story represented either elements of the present or the past and because of this division, the readers felt further distanced from the characters who lived in the past; especially Emily.
The analysis of these two criticisms probably best highlights how Faulkner successfully managed to distance the reader from the mystery which provided an additional sense of curiosity in the reader,
and the townspeople, as to the mystery within Emilys house, by using multiple elements of his narrative and the subtle use of time and perspective.
Renee Currys article "Gender and authorial limitation in Faulkners "A Rose for Emily" published in The Mississippi Quarterly in 1994, tells of how Curry felt that Faulkner
was limited in his knowledge of writing a gendered narrative and this is shown through the narrators inability to understand Emily. In fact, the knowledge of Emily before the death
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the little that is known of
her in the last twenty-seven years of her life as well (Curry 391). Curry ascertains that Faulkner shows the slight differences in the
reactions of the men and women throughout the story and how this difference shows the basic presumption of the narrator and the author. The gender differences are often mentioned throughout
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