The Themes Of Miss Emily By Emily Faulkner

Setting: Centered around the house that he fathered lived. Miss Emily lived in a town, Jefferson rooted in the South. Narrator: We, from different perspective. Not a single voice; female and male voice. Events in summary: (1) Miss Emily died. The whole town went to her funeral. (2) She is confronted by the city’s representatives regarding the taxes. She rebuffs them. (3) Homer Barron is introduced and he takes an interested in Miss Emily. They are seen together on Sundays driving in a buggy. She goes to the druggist wanting some poison. (4) After Miss Emily had been laid into the grave, the towns folks have to break down the door to a sealed room, only to discover a man’s corpse. Tones: The narrator, we, as in the community, addresses the gossips, innuendos and speculation of what happen to Miss Emily throughout the years. Style: Faulkner use metaphors to describe Miss Emily. At the funeral, the town attended: “the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument.” She was described as “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.” When four young men went to the house to snoop around, they saw Miss Emily sit,

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