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Marianna Topumo
Year: 5th "D"
Professor: Odalis Malavé
Subject: Spanish
Generator Theme: Literary Creation, Result of Imagination
Thematic Fabric: Read the story by the writer Williams.
Faulkner. A Rose for Emily
Questions from the story A Rose for Miss Emily:
1. What type of narrator is observed in the story?
The story is narrated in the first person plural and represents the
voice of the people giving their opinion; it is an insignificant narration.
2. Name the characters
Miss Emily Grierson
Tobe
Homer Barron
The Father of Miss Emily
Colonel Sartoris
The Elder Lady Wyatt
The cousins
Judge Stevens
The Narrator
3. In what environment does the story take place?
The story takes place in a town with a southern atmosphere and
enslaved, who at the end of the Civil War, did not know what to do
when that way of life ended. Having a way of living that is
a sham, an atrocity, an evil. This poisoned environment,
fits with the typical characteristics of the characters.
4. Physical characteristics of Miss Emily
She was a small and plump woman, dressed in black, with a slim
gold chain that descended to her waist and disappeared into her
belt. He leaned on an ebony cane with a gold head
dull. When he cut his hair he looked younger, but afterwards
it turned gray. Its skeleton was small and gaunt; It looked swollen and
with the same pale color.
5. Who was Colonel Sartoris?
The colonel is the guy who invented the story to free Emily from
the taxes when his father dies. This was something positive. But this
the same colonel, the mayor, was the "author of the decree that ordered that
"No black woman could go out on the street without an apron." This, in
change, was not so positive. Unfortunately, the coexistence of
these two forms were the norm in those days among political figures
with power.
6. What was the problem that the neighbors expressed to the Mayor?
In chapter two, the problem that the neighbors expressed before the
The strong odor coming from Emily's house was alarming.
the solution they had thought of to solve the problem was to tell him to
the woman who had a certain number of days to clean her garden, since
In this way, the smell would go away and the neighbors would have nothing to complain about.
But since no one dared to tell her this, as they would call her dirty,
some men broke into his house and threw lime in the garden. After a while
A few days ago the smell disappeared and no further complaints were made.
At the beginning, the reason for the smell is unknown, but in the end, it is understood; the
the smell came from the deceased man who was in the house of
Emily.
7. What was the way the smell disappeared?
Lime and arsenic are among the most chilling symbols of the tale.
Lime is a white powder used to cover bodies.
decomposed. Ironically, it seems that the lime was sprayed in vain.
The smell of the decomposing body of Homer Barron disappeared.
on their own. Or perhaps the people simply got used to the
Color. Lime is a symbol of the unsuccessful attempt to hide something.
embarrassing and chilling. Also a good example of how it
they did things (at least how that generation did things) in the
town.
And we talk about lime and arsenic together because both are symbols of
getting rid of something that smells, and in the case of A Rose for Emily, it is
exactly the same. Do you remember what the drug dealer writes to him in the
arsenic package that Emily buys, under the poison symbol?
"For rats." Faulkner says that Homer was probably not a good
type. If Homer was planning to break his engagement with Emily,
She, with her Southern tradition on her shoulders, perhaps considered him a rat.
The arsenic used to kill rats produces a nauseating smell, the
people in the town hate this smell and try to eliminate it with lime. Also
it should be remembered that arsenic is the favorite deadly weapon of the
fiction, given its reputation for having neither smell nor color and because it is
virtually undetectable by the victim. The movie Arsenic and Old
Lace (1944), directed by Franz Capra, is a good example.
8. What feelings were there in the village when the father of the
Miss Emily?
There was a feeling of revenge. And of joy.
The people decided that now that Emily had been alone and impoverished
it would be humanized; it would learn to understand the needs and the
desperation of having a penny more or less, but it wasn't like that.
that Miss Emily was too proud. She locked herself in her
mansion, very little came out after his father passed away, so much
so, he was finally enclosed for 10 years until
the day he/she passed away.
9. In what time are the events recounted? (Is it linear or are they altered?)
times?), explain
The time in 'A Rose for Emily' is not linear, but rather the opposite.
There are often jumps from the past to the present and vice versa, so it does not
there is a constant in the facts.
Making the above clear, we can infer that there is evidently
temporary plans that are constantly changing.
An example is the beginning of the work, which starts with the death of
Emily and then we traveled to the past.
10. Explain in your own words the content of the story.
The story begins with the grand funeral of Miss Emily Grierson.
The town developed a special relationship with Miss Emily since
They decided not to charge taxes in 1894. Everyone was
felt sorry for Emily when her father died. When he passed away, Emily
he refused to accept it for three days. The story goes back in time
and we found that shortly after the death of Emily's father,
She starts dating Homer Barron and the town disapproves.
fervently the romance and call Emily's cousins to
stop that relationship. When Emily buys a large amount of
men's articles, they think that she and Homer are going to get married.
Homer leaves the village, then his cousins do the same, and Homer
he returns. The last time Homer is seen is entering the house of
Emily. After this, she rarely leaves the house, except for a
six-year period during which he taught painting. His hair
it turns gray, gains weight, and eventually dies in a
room of the main silver of the house, where light has not entered
In years. The story returns to the moment where it began, at his funeral.
Tobe, Miss Emily's servant, lets you into the house at the
women of the village and then leaves the house, forever, through the door
back. After the funeral, and after Emily's burial, the people
from the village goes up to the second floor of the house and enters the room that
They know it has been closed for 40 years.
Inside, they find the lifeless body of Homer Barron, decaying.
in bed. On the dusty pillow, next to Homer, there
appreciate the groove made by a head, and there, see how it rests
a long gray hair on it.