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A 3 page essay that discusses the time imagery in this short story. A principal component of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is the imagery that the author associates with time. The passage of time is integral to conveying the full import not only of Emily Grierson's psychosis, but also the relationship of the Grierson family to the small Southern town in which Miss Emily lived her life. Examination of the story indicates the various ways in which Faulkner uses time to underscore his thematic meaning. No additional sources cited.
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psychosis, but also the relationship of the Grierson family to the small Southern town in which Miss Emily lived her life. Examination of the story indicates the various ways in
which Faulkner uses time to underscore his thematic meaning. First of all, the story begins with Miss Emilys funeral, an event that naturally conjures the idea of time, and
this combines with a description of the decay of the neighborhood and her home, which leads naturally into a reminiscence of the last time when any of the townsmen saw
Miss Emily. This meeting was due to her overdue taxes. Miss Emily had responded to a request for a meeting by writing a note on "paper of an archaic shape,"
and when the men come to her home, they notice that the leather blinds are "cracked" and the house smells of "dust and disuse" (Faulkner section I). As this suggests,
all of the images used to describe Emily and her home indicate that, even then, which was years ago, her home and even Emily herself had fallen into a state
of dilapidation and disuse, as her severe weight gain suggests that she was no longer moving, no longer using or maintaining her body. Recollection of this visit recalls for
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell of decay. This leads into exposition that
relates Emilys youth and the tyranny of a father who judged every young man who came to call on her as not good enough to court a Grierson. During this
era, an upper class woman had only one chance of escaping her fathers domination and that was through marriage. But youth and beauty are fleeting and are quickly stolen by
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