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A 9 page paper which examines language, foreshadowing, and characterization in William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the reader with its ending. It is a haunting tale, a tale about the Old South and the New South, a story about the position of women in society, the
power of social class, and a story about small towns, just to name a few of the perspectives one could take in examining this story. The following paper analyzes the
story as it pertains to three different elements: language, foreshadowing, and characterization. Language One critic, in examining a different work of Faulkners, states that, "Human thought often does not
take the form of language. People think without words and the mind works with concepts instead of words" (Voegele). This is a notion that clearly applies to "A Rose for
Emily," and many other works as well perhaps. In Emilys case we rarely hear her speak and thus we can only imagine what goes on in her head and in
her life. And, Faulkner is incredibly good at presenting us with language that is offered through people other than the primary character. Faulkners work also often uses a form
of language in literature known as "stream of consciousness" and his language is often thought to possess "complexity" (Hickman). In "A Rose for Emily" we witness the "stream of consciousness"
and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to be something of a stream of
the narrators thoughts, regarding its length, and we see a complexity that offers the reader just one simple sentence that can be read over and over again: "When Miss Emily
Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the
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