ipl-logo

Use Of Healthy Confusion In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

447 Words2 Pages
Healthy Confusion “A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner is a short story that will make anyone who reads it curious to know what is going to happen next. This curiosity is known as healthy confusion. William Faulkner successfully fills his story with confusion by using sizable amounts of imagery, foreshadowing, and suspicion. As a reader, when examining “A Rose for Emily” many events leave you hanging and you want to know what is going to happen next. Faulkner does this by using foreshadowing to hint at an event that is going to happen but the reader is unaware of this till the end of the story. Emily purchases many different things for her lover Homer, such as a silver set of brushes and a new set of silk pajamas with his monogram
Open Document