Grierson's Use Of Literary Devices Used In Resistance To Change By Faulkner

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The story was written in 1930. It is a story about the mysterious life of Miss. Emily Grierson. It reveals the effect of social change on the individual. This story is largely accepted as a masterpiece. The five sections in the story create tension because they have no chronological order. This story is classified as Southern Gothic for use of the Southern milieu. “Resistance to change” is the main theme of the story. Faulkner uses the strategies of flashback and foreshadowing. Flashback and foreshadowing is two literary devices that are usually used in order to create an anomalous effect. Flashbacks are the events which are occurred before the present time the narration follows. Flashback is used to comprise a background to the present situation