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A 3 page essay on William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" that focuses on his use of narration. No additional sources cited.
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prominent family. The narrators voice is established from the first sentence, utilizing a third-person limited point of view that lets the reader know that the plot of the story, i.e.,
the life of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, is being told by an anonymous member of this Southern community. The exposition occurs basically in the form of flashbacks, which serve
to take the reader back to Emilys youth and, in so doing, the narration relates the factors and relationships that formed her character. This also relates the nature of
the setting and the tone of the narrator, which is one of bemused toleration for the idiosyncrasies of the towns aristocracy, i.e., the Grierson family. As the narrators
recounting of Miss Emilys past unfolds, the reader comes to understand her motivation and the social forces that shaped her behavior. This causes the reader, increasingly, to feel a sense
of impending catastrophe, as the atmosphere of the story darkens and complications ensue, the most prominent of which is when Miss Emily begins seeing a man whom the town judges
to be totally unsuitable as a potential husband for a member of Miss Emilys social class, as he is not only a day laborer, but a Yankee. The rising action
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitude on the part of the townspeople, as
previously the narrator established that Miss Emily had the towns sympathy regarding the way in which her father ran off every potential suitor who came to call on her. The
climax of the story occurs when the narrator relates how Emilys suitor, Homer Barron, disappeared; how Emily was known to have purchased poison; and how the town was assaulted by
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