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A 5 page research paper/essay in which the writer explores the Faulkner's characterization of "Miss Emily" and the forces that drove her insane. The writer argues that through the story's structure, Faulkner offers a critical analysis of the social pressures that were the lot of women from upper class families during this era. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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as it is about the eccentric "Miss Emily." Through the storys structure, Faulkner offers a critical analysis of the social pressures that were the lot of women from upper class
families during this era. This structure offers the perfect vehicle for subtly dramatizing the social pressures that drove Emily to insanity and murder. The reader comes to see Emily as
both victim and also victor in the way in which she manipulates reality through her madness to suit her own purposes. Critic James Wallace points out that this short
story concerns, among other things, "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 (105). As this suggests, Faulkner never allows the reader to get very close to Emily. Everything 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 pair are gossiping over a backyard fence. It is this distancing
from Emily that facilitates Faulkners examination of Southern social conventions. The narrative opens and closes with Emilys funeral, as her story is related in flashbacks by the narrator.
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain mentally. The narrator comments about how
Emily refused for three days to admit that her father was dead. "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered
all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her" (A...Faulkner).
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