Did the ending of A Rose for Emily surprise you?

“A Rose for Emily” Ending The single strand of long gray hair indicates that Emily has, at the least, been lying beside the corpse over the many years since Homer disappeared from Jefferson. The townspeople believe he had rejected her, but they do not know that Emily prevented Homer from leaving until her death.

The final paragraph reveals both the town’s callousness towards Emily’s loneliness as well as the gruesome reality of the life she had been living.

Tobe, miss Emily’s servant, lets in the townswomen and then leaves by the backdoor. He’s never seen again. After the funeral, and after Emily is buried, the townspeople go upstairs to break into the room that they know has been closed for forty years.

Towards the end of the story, it seems that Emily may have found love at last, with Homer Barron. However, he rejects her. This leads to a desperate plan to create a fantasy world in which Emily will never be alone again. She purchases arsenic, a rat poison, and kills him.

What happened when the judge tried to get Miss Emily to pay her taxes? Miss Emily was stubborn and said no. They didn’t do anything about it. … What had been the position of Miss Emily’s family in Jefferson while her father was still alive?

In “A Rose for Emily,” some details that foreshadow the conclusion are the unpleasant smell that emanates from Emily’s house, Emily purchasing rat poison, and the disappearance of Homer.

Emily Grierson For Homer Barron, Emily was definitely an antagonist. In a way, the town sees her an antagonist as well. Her own generation persecutes her out of revenge for her family’s pretension of nobility.

1935 – Miss Emily dies at seventy-four years old. Tobe leaves the house. Two days later the funeral is held at the Grierson house. At the funeral, the townspeople break down the door to the bridal chamber/crypt, which no one has seen in forty years.

Why was Emily’s relationship with her father strained? He drove away all her suitors. What does the town expect Emily to do with the arsenic she buys from the druggist?

In ‘A Rose for Emily,’ the smell that comes from Emily’s house after she kills Homer Barron is the one piece of evidence the townspeople are not able to ignore. However, rather than facing it and getting to the source of the problem, they sneak onto her property in the middle of the night and cover the smell with lime.

“A Rose for Emily” ends with the discovery of the forty-year-old corpse of Homer Barron.

The rose represents the idea of love since young lovers often give each other roses to express their affections. With so many suitors in her youth, it seems inevitable that Emily will accept a rose from one of them, but she never does. When she meets Homer, it seems like she may finally have true love.

The theme of “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is that people should let go of the past, moving on with the present so that they can prepare to welcome their future. Emily was the proof of a person who always lived on the shadow of the past; she clung into it and was afraid of changing.

Emily’s body is laid out in the parlor, and the women, town elders, and two cousins attend the service.

She believes that her taxes are paid in Jefferson because Colonel Sartoris had told her so at the time of her father’s death many years before. Sartoris had deceived Emily out of kindness, knowing that she could not afford to pay the taxes and that she would not accept charity.

Emily, although she deliberately sets up a solitary existence for herself, is unable to give up the men who have shaped her life, even after they have died. She hides her dead father for three days, then permanently hides Homer’s body in the upstairs bedroom.

The exposition is when we meet Miss Emily “alive” and learn her eccentricities. The climax occurs when she dies. Miss Emily purchasing poison, Homer’s departure, and the stench are the rising action.

The reader never truly feels comfortable, which heightens the feeling of suspense. Because the story is told out of order Faulkner is able to steadily ratchet up the tension with each new revelation about Miss Emily’s life.

In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Mrs. Emily Grierson is portrayed as the villain, but when the story is further examined, it’s revealed that she truly isn’t a villain. To some people’s chagrin, she is the victim of the story.

Regarding complexity, a character can be round or flat; in this case, Emily is a round character. According to Pacheco and Meyers, “round characters are those fictitious beings which the reader can readily visualize because the writer has provided them with a number of qualities and traits” (42).

Miss Emily purchases the arsenic to kill Homer Barron, a Yankee working man who has come to town to work on the paving of sidewalks in the town. He is not someone whom Miss Emily’s father would have approved of, finding such a person beneath her. But Homer seems to court Emily, and they go riding together on Sundays.

In the story, Emily Grierson likely suffers from psychological disorders, such as the Electra Complex, which is an attraction to her father and a rivalry with her mother.

Emily’s house also represents alienation, mental illness, and death. It is a shrine to the living past, and the sealed upstairs bedroom is her macabre trophy room where she preserves the man she would not allow to leave her.

No, the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is not a true story. The story is one of Faulkner’s many fictional creations set…

Throughout her life, Emily’s father was extremely overprotective. He drove all her potential suitors away because he did not feel like anyone was good enough for his little girl.

Emily Grierson Devastated and alone after her father’s death, she is an object of pity for the townspeople. After a life of having potential suitors rejected by her father, she spends time after his death with a newcomer, Homer Barron, although the chances of his marrying her decrease as the years pass.

The mayor of Jefferson some time after Sartoris, Judge Stevens receives complaints that Miss Emily’s property is issuing a bad smell, but, so as not to humiliate the woman, he dispatches men to investigate the smell in secret and to neutralize it by spreading lime around Miss Emily’s property.

Emily shortly buys arsenic from a druggist in town, presumably to kill rats, however, the townspeople are convinced that she will use it to poison herself. Emily’s distant cousins are called into town by the minister’s wife to supervise Miss Emily and Homer Barron.

What did Miss Emily tell her visitors the day after her father’s death? She told the visitors that her father wasn’t dead. Why did the townspeople not think she was crazy for this? They didn’t think she was crazy because her father was all that she had left.

“A Rose for Emily” Ending The single strand of long gray hair indicates that Emily has, at the least, been lying beside the corpse over the many years since Homer disappeared from Jefferson. The townspeople believe he had rejected her, but they do not know that Emily prevented Homer from leaving until her death.

The gray hair on the pillow indicates that she has been lying down on the bed, beside the corpse of her dead former fiance. … Gray hair is sometimes seen as a sign of wisdom and respect. It’s a sign that the person has lived a life, worth living—full of experience.

Grierson. Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, sets the tone for her narrative of solitude and control. He makes himself the central figure in Emily’s life, chasing away her suitors with a horsewhip and exerting his influence over every aspect of their home – something that does not ebb after his death.

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily Grierson is a lonely old woman, living a life void of all love and affection; although the rose only directly appears in the title, the rose surfaces throughout the story as a symbol. In contemporary times, the rose also symbolizes emotions like love and friendship.

Emily is “a fallen monument” because she was the last person that was fighting for black equality and also women equality. She was the last person trying to fight for that cause and will be remembered as that therefore she’s a monument.

Faulkner uses the word “august,” to mean distinguished or respected, in order to describe the family names of those people buried in the same cemetery as Emily.