A Rose for Emily (1930)
Debbra Eckstrom
Rasmussen College

Author Note This assignment is being submitted on January 22, 2014 for LeeAnn Kinkade, Introduction to Literature, G230/LIT2000.

A Rose for Emily A Rose for Emily

I felt like this was a good non-fiction story, in this story William Faulkner represents two types of conflicts. A woman named Emily; conflicts within her, and the communities conflicts are the two main ones. Emily’s father who was a strict man did not let her live a healthy social life. Her father had died and she refused to admit all the changes that were happening outside her house as the years went by. Emily took care of her father her whole life, but when he dies she starts dating some guy. She thinks he loves her, and then she finds out he plans on leaving her. She ends up killing him and keeping him in her bed, so he can never leave her. (William Faulkner 1897-1962).
The climax of this story comes when Emily is thinking of a scam to kill her friend. She goes to the drug store to buy some arsenic the worst on the market. I think the climax was resolved, because she actually killed him and at the end of the story she dies. (William Faulkner 1897-1962).
A rose for Emily demonstrates a theme of degeneration in the town, the house and in Emily herself. In the early nineteen hundreds, the story opens with the town finding out about Emily’s death. The story is told by someone who lives in the town of Jefferson. I have learned about the life and times about Emily, and her relationship with the town, her father, and her lover.
The conflicts in this story are the theme. Emily becomes confused and disoriented through the whole story. The story begins with Emily’s death, and the details of her life are revealed through flashbacks. (William Faulkner