What is suggested by the description of Miss Emily in the scene in which the alderman visit her regarding her refusal to comply with the tax law?.Why does she assume, more than ten years after Sartoris’ death, that she still need not pay taxes?.Why did Colonel Satroris remit her taxes in 1894?.How has that status changed through the years?.How is Miss Emily’s house described? What details seem particularly suggestive of her status in the town?.How would you account for this difference?.
What difference is mentioned between the interest in her held by male and female townsfolk?.Why did “the whole town” attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson? What is the source of their interest in this 74-year-old woman?.These questions are by Ronald Walker, retired Professor of English at Western Illinois University and at present an independent scholar. Humanism: humans as social beings who act in their natural surroundings and construct landscapes.Naturalism: humans as living beings in nature.The environment in the forms of a class structure based on slavery and social change, together with heredity, represented the forces beyond her control. This story, which also used Gothic elements, presented a tale that highlighted the extraordinary and excessive features in human nature and the social environment that influences them. The protagonist, Miss Emily, was forced to lead an isolated life, and that - combined with her mental illness - made insanity her inevitable fate. William Faulkner‘s A Rose for Emily, a story about a woman who killed her lover, is considered an example of a narrative within the naturalism category. Now I’ve read the short story and also listened to the podcast, I can see why this song was chosen.Īs for the short story itself, “A Rose For Emily” is often returned as an excellent example of naturalism. There’s exists a disturbing ironic distance between the sadness of the narrative and the upbeat tune. The theme song to Shit Town is A Rose For Emily by The Zombies.
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