Samuel Irving Bellman is one among many of the critics who have mixed emotions about the story. After first reading the novel in 1943, Bellman found it to be flat, unappealing, and unimaginative. He felt the characters were lifeless and hard to imagine as players in a human drama. A major drawback of his is Wharton’s love-hate triangle between Ethan, Zeena, and Mattie. From a positive perspective, “Ethan Frome is important to Wharton’s canon because it represents her confident coming of age as an artist…It has gained its place as a masterpiece of American literature for its style: it is brilliant in its economy, clarity, and structure (Bellman).” Here, he is explaining that Ethan Frome deserves to be a classic for its style, although he is not personally fond of the book.
Published on April 30, 1930 in a major magazine at the time, Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” showcases the life of Ms. Emily Grierson, a local townswoman, and is captured in a mysterious and eventually horrific context that allows the reader to understand the sadness and morbid side of death. The story is a set in a southern context that Faulkner knew all too well and contains implications of contrasts between northern and southern society. Faulkner uses many different elements in this work to portray death in its entire grotesque and horrifying splendor. Particularly, Faulkner uses two certain elements to accomplish this task. Faulkner successfully conveys the theme of the power of death in “A Rose for Emily” by incorporating the use of the literary elements of foreshadowing and narrative voice.
Homer’s presence can be taken as a bright rose, which shows love and affection towards Emily. Miss Emily is viewed as a remembrance of the “Old South”. A darker colored rose can be expressed as a saddened or grieving emotion because of her death. After her death, she is described to be a fallen monument of the town and now the last part of the pervious Southern generation. The color black is used widely in the story.
Carol Ann Duffy describes Medusa as a bitter woman, who has been betrayed by the man she loved. The poet creates the reader’s reaction to medusa’s character through a direst address to the reader. Rhetorical questions like ‘Are you terrified?’ and ‘Wasn’t I beautiful?’ bring the reader unto immediate contact with Medusa. Furthermore commands like ‘Be terrified’ and ‘Look at me now’ are used to build fear and allow the reader o experience her rage. This is just one method used to create the reader’s reaction to Medusa.
In William Faulkner's short story entitled "A Rose For Emily", Emily Grierson appears as a main character. She is a pathetic, lonely, hermit-like tragic woman and went as far as to commits murder, which is revealed in the end of this story. And Homer Baron, the another supporting character, is the Emily's first lover who is killed by Emily. I'd like to analyze the character Homer Barron with the given information in this story. Homer Barron is a foreman of a construction company who seems to take an interest in Emily, portrayed is affable, confident and extrovert in sharp contrast to Emily's personality.
The poet remains reader of how understandable Grendel's mother's response is. Another describes the loss of her son as that female horror, reminding us that the loss of a child is the worst thing imaginable for most mothers. She may not be a more terrible
The poem is a dramatic monologue as Ms. Havisham is speaking in the poem and she is speaking with a tone of anger, grief and distaste. The first line starts off with an oxymoron which is “beloved sweetheart bastard”. Oxymoron’s are used to show conflicting ideas and feelings and with the use of this oxymoron it is clear that Carol Ann Duffy wants to show that Ms. Havisham has these conflicting feelings about the man who is both sweetheart and a bastard. In line 2, Ms Havisham tells the reader that she not only has she wished that the man died but she has prayed for it to happen so hard, this shows how she is scornful of the man and she believes that the best punishment is death. In line 3, there is a metaphor used
Sam Hardwick February 22, 2012 7th Hour Composition Analytical Paper Miss Emily: She Deserved a Rose The short story “A Rose for Emily” features a very troubled character. This character, Emily, is also the main character of the story. Emily faces many obstacles in her early life. These obstacles carry on through the early stage of her life and cause problems later in life. Emily could be characterized as crazy because she kept her father’s dead body, killed the man she loved, and slept with a dead body for the latter years of her life.
Literary History, Interpretation, and Analysis Task 4 Introduction Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily are short stories that both tell about the life of a woman that suffers from depression and eventually goes to being insane. There are similarities and differences that both stories share. The main character of Faulkner’s story was controlled by her father who ran off any boy that tried to get close to her which left her to be alone and unmarried. This caused the townspeople to feel pity towards her. The main character and narrator of Gilman’s story was forced by her husband to stay in a room upstairs where she started to show many delusional signs and eventually went insane.
Final Outline Thesis: In the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthore, and “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, women are portrayed as having very diverse reactions towards the abandonment of a loved one. Topic 1: Within the story, “A Rose for Emily,” Emily’s loss of her father ultimately causes her emotional insanity. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background [...].” “When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning grey. During the next few years it grew greyer and greyer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray when it ceased