Examples Of Foreshadowing In A Rose For Emily

A rose for Emily Starts off with Emily Grierson's funeral, later on in the story it goes back to show Emily’s childhood and her relationship between her abusive father and her. In the short story, Faulkner uses irony, metaphors and other literary devices to show how emily is mistreated by her father, as well as her loneliness. After her father’s death, she doesn’t want to accept it which puts her at a mental breakdown. Even though she had an awful relationship with her father, when he passed away she still couldn’t believe his death which only made her isolate herself, almost depressed. People thought she was getting ill. The way this story is told makes it seem like its a flashback, because it starts off with the funeral the goes back to

An example being that in the story we see that in Emily’s house a strange smell appears, which is weird because it was right after Homer disappears, this means that was the smell of death coming from Homer’s body. The smell of the body can and it happening in Emily’s house can also indicate something about Emily. She grew up with an abusive father and not having a great relationship with him but she killed someone in her own house, she kept homers body in a room no one was allowed to go into, which was what she sort of did with her father as she kept his body for little before burying him. Another weird thing that happened here is that Emily was seen purchasing rat poisoning asking for the best one they had. This was hinting someone was gonna die. what could she have possibly used that for. She is asked to say why she bought it but emily doesn’t say, she pays it and leaves. Emily has a hard time admitting and letting go of things, such as her father’s death, she cant imagine that being real, and buying rat poisoning and not saying what she will be using it for, or hiding Homer’s body in a room no one can go in to. There are many clues that Faulkner used to show foreshadowing throughout the story. Another Literary device used in A Rose for Emily is Imaginary. Imaginary can

Irony can be possibly described as sarcasm in ways such as saying something completely opposite. In this case, it was more of situational irony because of what Emily did. Emily didn’t want to be alone so she killed the love of her life and kept him close to her, the irony in that is that in reality it made her even more lonely and isolated. The way Emily grew up with her father made her completely different, it made her be isolated, her father’s death was part of the decision Emily took to murder Homer. She felt lonely because of the horrible relationship between herself and her father. Emily felt so lonely that she thought that by killing Homer she wouldn’t be lonely as she would be keeping him forever, and close to her. She thought that Homer could leave her which would have made Emily worse by isolating herself even more. She passed away at the young age of 74 but while she was alive she wanted to be happy with Homer which was why after she murdered him, she still kept him near her. He was all she had, Emily had no friends, the townspeople thought that Emily was always lonely and couldn’t find anyone to love her was because her dad was always very strict on guys and he wouldn’t let any get close to her. This made the townspeople think that because all the guys would get pushed away by her father, Emily wasn’t receiving any love from any other guy besides Homer. Irony is seen mostly on Emily’s killing with Homer, Knowing that