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A 3 page essay that examines William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" in terms of how the structure, tone, and imagery of the story conveys a critical analysis of the social pressures that shaped the lives of women in the Southern upper class during the first half of the twentieth century. Through Faulkner's superb writing skill, the reader comes to see Emily as victim and victor in the manner in she manipulates reality to suit her own purposes and achieve an equilibrium between the social expectations placed on her and her own needs. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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century as much as it is about the life of its most eccentric inhabitant, the aristocratic Emily Grierson. Through the structure, tone, imagery and symbolism of this story, Faulkner conveys
a critical analysis of the social pressures that shaped the lives of women in the Southern upper class at this time. Through Faulkners superb writing skill, the reader comes
to see Emily as victim and victor in the manner in she manipulates reality to suit her own purposes and achieve an equilibrium between the social expectations placed on her
and her own needs. Faulkner pulls the reader into the story through the medium of gossip. Wallace (1992) points out that this narrative concerns "gossip, and Faulkner, through
his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves" as we, too, gossip about Miss Emily by reading the narrators version of her life story (p. 105). As this suggests, Faulkner never
allows the reader to get very close to Emily. Everything the reader learns about her life is learned in the third person, rather than by seeing directly into the
protagonists thoughts. In other words, the reader learns about Emily from the narrator as if the reader and the narrator were gossiping over a backyard fence. This imparts an objective
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Emily that facilitates Faulkners examination of Southern social
conventions. Brown (2000) emphasizes that women, during this era, were considered to be either under the protection of their fathers, husband, or sons throughout life. Women had no legal identity
of their own. Southern tradition also demanded from women complete purity (Brown, 2000). While promiscuity was tacitly accepted in males, women were expected to have a "passionless love" that could
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