A Rose For Emily Passage Analysis

In the short story, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is dark, yet emotional. While reading this story, I couldn’t stay focus for long and I had to read over the passage more than twice. The first paragraph tells us how everyone went to Emily’s funeral, but later on, throughout the passage, it explains about how everyone would be excited to get rid of her. Emily’s impression on everyone was that she was “crazy” like her other relatives, but in the end, we learned that she just wanted love. A Rose for Emily had plenty of main ideas throughout the passage, but it was one important theme that I learned from the story. The theme I learned from the story is the past can hurt your present. Faulkner mentions that Emily didn’t leave out the

“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town….” This quote from the story explains that Emily’s family tradition and family’s name held a name nd important position in that town. She was well known throughout the town and that’s why that quote was mentioned in the story when Faulkner was talking about her funeral. “Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.” This quote is said in the story after it mentions that her father passed away. The people in the town was happy that her father passed for they wanted her to know what it was like being alone. It seemed as if everyone in that town had a strong hate for the Grierson’s. They wanted them to decease and wanted it to end at Miss Emily. The way Faulkner used the characters in the story to explain and describe Emily was ingenious of him. The title of the story is a symbol to the whole story. “A Rose for Emily,” is indicating that there was a rose for Emily at her funeral. He also used how she acts as a way of saying she was mentally ill. Even though he gave her the characteristics of being ill, no one believed that she