Style and irony that is clear in 'A Rose for Emily'

15th posting

5.10 p.m. 2nd September 2008

The story is told from a non participant narrator's point of view. The writer gives us a vivid imagination of the house by using words to deepen the readers understanding by conveying the situation and also on exact details like: eyesore among eyesore, dust, dark, shadow, rats, disuse and dank smell. All these describes about decay and bad omens. There is clearly no cheerfulness about the story. Here again, the diction is used in such a way that the writer depicts in a real manner that can make any reader bring themselves into the story.

The words are cleverly chosen to give an impact on the readers about dreadful things like death itself. The irony would be that even though the character of Miss. Emily rejects the town people and the community folks, yet the folks feel it is their duty to know what happens to her. They even wrote to her relatives: "the next Sunday the minister's wife wrote to her relatives in Alabama".

Will come up with more information in my 16th posting later. Cheers.