Hello Dr. Edwin,
2nd posting
Thesis Statement: Emily; Unwilling To Change With Times Due To Stubbornness And Pride That Led To The Acceleration Of Her Moral Decadence And Mental Decline.
You will notice that I have typed the title of my posting again. This is because of the limited space in the 'Title's' column above.
After browsing for a long time, I have finally decided to select William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" for my position paper where I have done a lot of analyzing on it. It's a wonderful and a tragic story where my mind has always been captivated by the suspense and diction used by William Faulkner to portray the main character. It has been one of the best stories to analyze so far. This is what I feel about William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'.
In ' A Rose for Emily', William Faulkner portrayed Emily’s character as a woman, full of pride and always defying and denying about anything and everything due to her upbringing and her aristocratic lineage.
She has deemed herself to adhere certain stringent rules that her father and forefathers had instilled in the upbringing of her family as how aristocratic Southerners have been practicing. She is described as a grand lady who never gives away her pride. She does not let go of her past and she can’t seem to come to terms about many things and stays aloof throughout the story. Some might consider her to be abnormal or mad such as when her father passed away and keeping his corpse until the corpse has to be taken out from the Grierson's family home by much persuasion, it was a devastating loss for her. Even when she is liberated from her father's"clutches", she still seemed to lose out in her newfound freedom. She has been controlled for far too long and now that she is free, she can't seem to put her life in order. Instead she became very bitter towards everyone that she meets including her beau, Homer Barron at a much later time. I think I have picked a good short story for my position paper. This is only some sort of an introduction. Hope to share more with you in my future postings. See ya.
