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Roses For Emily
Title: Roses For Emily
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 674 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Roses For Emily
William Faulkner’s dark sultry tale, A Rose for Emily, relies heavily on foreshadowing to relay its overall theme. Society’s tendency to allow special civil liberties to those with wealth or power is a valuable theme presented in this story. Faulkner’s old southern town is a societal microcosm that lives oblivious to the odd behaviors and ulterior motives of Miss Emily Grierson. Simultaneously and subconsciously, they manage to maintain the hierarchy of noblesse …showed first 75 words of 674 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 674 total…gone. Sometime before the aunts showed up though, Emily had gone to the drugstore and specifically asked for a poison. She said: “ I want arsenic.”(p.76;ch.2). This use of foreshadowing is one of the most important details in the story. The narrator seems as if this occurrence was public knowledge, yet no one suspected her of killing Homer, only herself. When Homer disappeared and did not return, no one was suspicious of her actions.
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