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A 5 page paper which examines the way in which the plot is organized in William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily. No additional sources cited.
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the reader in. It is a story that is told from the perspective of a town citizen, and in doing so the story makes Emily come alive in many ways.
It is the narrator, and their way of telling the story that really, ultimately, makes the story. Without the unique narrative this story would not possess suspense, mystery, intrigue or
characterization concerning Emily. The following paper examines how the plot is organized in this story and how that organization is truly important to the story and the success of the
story. Organization of Plot in A Rose for Emily by Faulkner The story opens with "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 inside of her house, which no one save an old
man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner I). In this one sees that the story begins, essentially with the end, for it is the death
of Emily. However, at the time the reader begins the story they do not know that the story will then go back and discuss her life. For all the first
time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragraphs the narrator talks about when Emily was
alive. But, it does not go back, logically, to her beginning but rather to later years in her adult life when some officials went to her door to demand she
pay her back taxes. She was already aged: "Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her.
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