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Title: A Rose for Emily (1930)


1
A Rose for Emily (1930)
  • Quiz

2
A Rose for Emily (1930)
  • Setting

3
1. Find a good match between the image/detail in
the story and its setting?
  • 1. garages and cotton gins agricultural
    society
  • 2. Men in their Confederate uniforms US civil
    war
  • 3. cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies
    the architectural style of the 20th-century South
  • 4. free postal delivery Colonel Sartoris as
    mayor

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Ref. Confederate and Union states in the American
Civil War (1861-1865)

http//www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/map.html
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2. Which of the following does NOT show a
mismatch between Emily and her Society?
  1. Her house
  2. Her refusal to pay tax
  3. Her offering of china painting lesson at the age
    of 40
  4. Her going out with Homer Barron.

6
A Rose for Emily (1930)
  • Plot

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3. Which of the following is an adequate
description of the storys plot?
  1. It follows a reverse chronological order.
  2. It moves back and forth, and has a final
    disclosure.
  3. It begins in the middle.
  4. It moves back and forth between the pre-
    Civil-War time and post-Civil-War time.

8
4. Which of the following is NOT a major turning
point in Emilys life?
  • 1. Her fathers death
  • 2. Her going out with Homer Barron
  • 3. Her being asked to pay tax
  • 4. Her termination of the china painting lesson.

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A Rose for Emily (1930)
  • Emily

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5. Which of the following images do NOT represent
Emily?
  1. iron-gray hair
  2. A carven torso of an idol in a niche
  3. two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of
    dough
  4. a spraddled silhouette in the foreground

11
Ref. The Old Emily Contradictory Signs in her
Appearance
  • As an old woman elegant, classy, but stubborn
    and refusing to adjust to the changes of time.
  • Emilys Response to Taxation
  • (1) Elegant and old-fashioned Writes in a thin,
    flowing calligraphy in faded ink (par 4)
  • (2) Signs of will power and class "a small,
    fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain
    descending to her waist and vanishing into her
    belt, leaning on an ebony cane.(par 6)
  • (3) Aged and Dying She looked bloated, like a
    body long submerged in motionless water, and of
    that pallid hue.  Her eyes, lost in the fatty
    ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces
    of coal pressed into a lump of dough.(par 6)

12
Ref. Old Emily (2) Images of Death vs. Strong
Will
  • Death
  • Her bloating body
  • Her death.
  • She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a
    heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head
    propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and
    lack of sunlight.
  • Strong Will
  • Her keeping a corpse with her.
  • Hair -- pepper-and-salt iron-gray, like the hair
    of an active man.
  • On the bed a long strand of iron-gray hair.

13
Ref. Emilys Family Background
  • The decline of the Gierson family old Lady Wyatt
    mad, two cousins away, only her father and her
    left.
  • Her Fathers control
  • We had long thought of them as a tableau Miss
    Emily a slender figure in white in the
    background, her father a spraddled (??)
    silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and
    clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by
    the back-flung front door. (par 25)

14
6. Is what way is, or is not, the young Emily a
Southern belle?
  1. She is one because she is rich and coqettish.
  2. She is not, because her father is in the way.
  3. She is not, because she smells.
  4. She is, because she is sought after, and the
    older generation treat her genteelly.

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7. Which of the following is an example of
Emilys adjustment to the changes in her life?
  1. Her hair was cut short.
  2. After her fathers death, she is dressed as
    usual and with no trace of grief on her face.
  3. In her room, there are curtains of faded rose
    color, the rose-shaded lights, upon the
    dressing table, the delicate array of crystal
    and the mans toilet things backed with tarnished
    silver
  4. I want some poison, she said.

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A Rose for Emily (1930)
  • The Narrators

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8. Which of the following is NOT an example of
the narrators gossip about Emily?
  • 1. So the next day we all said, She will kill
    herself.
  • 2. Two days later we learned that she had bought
    a complete outfit of mens clothing, including a
    nightshirt, and we said, They are married. We
    were really glad.
  • 3. Poor Emily.
  • 4. We remembered all the young men her father had
    driven away, and we knew that with nothing left,
    she would have to cling to that which had robbed
    her, as people will.

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Ref. The Narrators Changing Views of Emily
  • 1) Finds the Griersons too proud
  • Emily single at 30 ? Vindicated (proved right)
  • 2) After the fathers death
  • We people were glad. At last they could pity
    Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she
    had become humanized.
  • Emilys denial of death ( dressed as usual and
    with no trace of grief on her face. par 27) ?
    Sympathetic not crazy we knew that with
    nothing left, she would have to cling to that
    which had robbed her, as people will.
  • 3) Poor Emily
  • 4) feel sorry for her.

19
Ref. Town Peoples Intervention Gossips--Poor
Emily We said
  • -- some glad, some disagreeing shouldnt forget
    about her nobility Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk
    should come to her.
  • --guessing and gossiping
  • Poor Emily, the whispering began.
  • Guess Of course it is. What else could . .
    . This behind their hands secretly rustling
    of craned silk and satin behind jalousies ???
    closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the
    thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team
    passed Poor Emily.

20
Ref. Town Peoples Gossips
  • -- Gossips continued --
  • When she had first begun to be seen with Homer
    Barron, we had said, She will marry him.
  • Then we said, She will persuade him yet,
    because Homer himself had remarkedhe liked men,
    and it was known that he drank with the younger
    men in the Elks Clubthat he was not a marrying
    man. Later we said, Poor Emily . . .
  • -- intervening
  • Then the women see it a disgrace to the town and
    a bad example to the young people. ? Baptist
    minister? the relatives are fetched. (par 43)
  • Arsenic -- So the next day we all said, She will
    kill herself and we said it would be the best
    thing.

21
Ref. Emilys Pride vs. the Gossips
  • 1) Amidst gossips She carried her head high
    enougheven when we believed that she was
    fallen. (par 33)
  • 2) Arsenic episode
  • Appearance She was over thirty then, still a
    slight woman, though thinner than usual, with
    cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of
    which was strained across the temples and about
    the eye-sockets as you imagine a
    lighthouse-keepers face ought to look. (par 34
    meaning?)
  • Confrontation Miss Emily just stared at him,
    her head tilted back in order to look him eye for
    eye, until he looked away and went and got the
    arsenic and wrapped it up.

22
Narrators moments of sympathy
  • 1. after her fathers death
  • 2. after Homer Barron disappears and Emily ceases
    to appear on the street for 6 months.
  • Then we knew that this was to be expected too
    as if that quality of her father which had
    thwarted her womans life so many times had been
    too virulent and too furious to die.
  • 3. in the smell episode begun to feel really
    sorry for her.

23
Discussion
  • How do we explain each of the following
    adjectives?
  • Thus she passed from generation to
    generation-dear, inescapable, impervious,
    tranquil, and perverse. (par 51)

24
A Rose for Emily (1930)
  • Themes Language

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9. To whom all the past is not a diminishing road
but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever
quite touches, divided from them now by the
narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of
years
  • Whom refers to
  • 1. Emily
  • 2. The narrators
  • 3. The elderly that attend her funeral

26
Ref. Pay attention to the change of toneand the
image of dust
  • The violence  of breaking down the door seemed to
    fill this room with pervading dust.  A thin,
    acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie
    everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as
    for a bridal upon the valance curtains of faded
    rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the
    dressing table, upon the delicate array of
    crystal and the mans toilet things backed with
    tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the
    monogram was obscured. ? The deed of breaking
    into others secret in mind is often violent and
    cruel.

27
10. For a long while we just stood there, looking
down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body
had apparently once lain in the attitude of an
embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts
love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had
cuckolded him.
  • Theme?
  • The failure of social control
  • Love and death
  • Self vs. Society
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