Compare And Contrast A Rose For Emily Literary Story

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William Faulkner stories were usually written within the setting of his home town of Mississippi. Posed after the Civil War and with a twist as we see in “A Rose for Emily”. As a matter of fact, this particular story could be Faulkner’s own family with the similarities of the setting and the fact that both Emily’s and Faulkner family lost the influence it once had. In both version, film and the literary story, of “A Rose of Emily”, William Faulkner starts the story the same as he ends it; with the death of Emily Grierson. Along with the fall of a prominent family and the mental abuse of Emily by her father. In the book, we can see how Faulkner takes his time to paint the picture of the scenery for the readers, “It was a big, squarish frame …show more content…

In all the scenes, after Emily purchased the poison, you never hear her speak of the poison again or even show it in either story. Both version just shows a stun reader and audience the corpse of Homer, which is then made clear Emily’s purpose for buying the poison and her intent of its use. Though the gossip girls, assumed Miss Emily had purchased the poison for herself and they were ok with that. Even gave their blessings to Miss Emily to commit suicide, “So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing” (85). Even when the stench oozed from Emily’s house was so bad, the town’s people just chalked it up to dirty housekeeping. The ladies said, “No man could keep a kitchen properly” (83). After the towns’ judge refused to speak with Miss Emily, some of the men went over to Emily’s one night and spread lime all around the house and down the cellar. This eventually did the trick for the smell or was it just a coincidence that the rotting body of Homer had reach the stage where it no longer

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