Welcome to your first blog discussion. Follow the guidelines below. I am looking forward to reading some great discussion about this story.
Guidelines/Expectations for assignment:
1. You are to complete a Short Story Assignment for "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. I will collect your typed response on Tuesday.
2. You will post your level 2 and level 3 questions on the blog. Be sure that your questions are spaced well enough for people to read and understand. You need to have these questions posted by Friday, Sept. 3rd at midnight.
3. Next, with your level 2 and level three questions, you need to post your reflection to the story. You can either copy and paste your reflection for your SS Assignment, or simply summarize your response. This too must be posted by Friday, Sept. 3rd at midnight.
4. Lastly, you must respond to at least two of your peers. You can answer either their level 2 or 3 question. You must choose two different peers to respond to. Your responses must be posted by Monday, Sept. 6th at midnight.
Although this is a blog, be formal in your questioning and responses. Please email me with any questions.
Level Two: Why did so many of the towns people seem so interested in Miss Emily’s life even though she was keeping to herself?
ReplyDeleteLevel Three: How do you think Miss Emily’s way of life affected the old man slave? What do you think he would remember her for?
2. In the story, were the cousins more help or hurt to Emily and her situation?
ReplyDelete3. What does the black man signify when he lets the ladies in and then immediately walks straight out the back door? Did he know what was really going on? Was there more to him than meets the eye?
My Response: I liked this story significantly. I thought the random tales that compiled with the ever growing rumors was quite entertaining. Each time it appeared you knew what had happened in the story a twist in the plot would be thrown in. In addition to this, despite being written in the late 1800’s, it still was easy to understand and read. I did not have to interpret the normal old English gibberish. The only thing I really was not too enthused about was the jumping around of the plot. Although one catches on after a while at first this confused me a little bit. This story is similar to a sveral of other pieces of literature I have read. Many pieces by Edgar Allen Poe mirror this story with its shocking, macabre ending. Also stories like The Scarlett Letter mirror the man versus societal conflict that is presented in this story. Although there is no direct outward conflict Emily, she is defiantly on a side against the town. Also in response to my second question I believe that the sisters were initially beneficial to Emily since she had lost her father and needed some comfort, but after a little I think they started to cast a dark influence on to Emily. This in turn caused Emily to start to decline this is why when they left she appeared to improve significantly.
ReplyDelete"Jim" is Carrissa... idk how that happened or is happening lol
ReplyDeleteEach time the people in the town saw Miss Emily she looked older than the time before. However Faulkner does a fair job using these aging affects to show more than just a laps of time, but rather that there was always something more going on behind closed doors. I believe it gives off more of mysterious atmosphere for the reader to never know what is really going on in Miss Emily’s life. It is like learning about a stranger from a person who is also a stranger to them. Anyway this story was difficult for me to follow, I couldn’t keep my mind on focus and I didn’t find any great themes or parts that jumped out at me. Basically I see it as a story that is all that is left of Miss Emily’s life and leaves the reader remembering her how the writer is relating her to her readers.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1: If the "negro" knew all of this was going on, why do you think he never said anything?
ReplyDeleteQuestion 2: What do you think was the author's significance of the "negro" leaving at the end of the story and never being seen again?
Question 3: Why did the government not investigate the bad smell coming from the house if it was that bad?
Reflection to the story: I would have to say that this story was somewhat interesting to think about. The main point that caught my attention the most was the fact that her father wouldn't let her marry anyone. He even chased off the guys that were going for his daughter. During this time period, wasn't it a custom for the women to get married early to have children? Why would this dad restrict his own daughter from getting acquainted with other guys?
Even though Emily was crushed by her father's death, due to him being the only man in her life that she could be attached to, she took advantage of this by killing Homer just so she had another guy to feel a connection with. This was really odd to me and led me to the conclusion that her father restricting her from guys so much traumatized her so much in the end that she resorted to murder just so she could be close to another guy.
There are still many psycho people in the world today, but do you think any of them would resort to the same extreme(s) as Emily did? I would sure hope not.
On the positive side, this story was alright because it wasn't written in Old English so I didn't have to waste time translating it into modern day language. The way it was written was also unique in the way that Faulkner used aging to show Emily's background that nobody really knew about.
To Carissa's level 3 question: I think that the old man slave's life was affected negatively because he was used so much. Since Emily RARELY ventured outside of the house, he had to do everything for her, which would cause a ton of emotional stress. Also, since Emily seemed to be a very depressed woman herself, and the slave saw her 24/7, that could have rubbed off on him.
ReplyDeleteI think he would remember her for using him and never getting a decent 'thanks' for anything, as far as we know.
2. If Homer was gay why did he continue to go back to Miss Emily and take her on rides? Do you think Emily used her stubborn proud persistence to persuade Homer to marry her?
ReplyDelete3. Why do you think Emily gets everything she wants? Does she have any authority on the town’s people? Does she cause more fear or pity in the town? Do you think she has an obsession with death or problems letting go of her loved ones?
This story was an interesting read. I enjoy stories in which the endings are not obvious. The dead body of Homer locked up in a room in Emily’s house was not what I was expecting to encounter when the story ended. The way Faulkner used detail in his description gave the story a creative edge. Through the way Emily’s house is described, the character and personality of Emily can be determined. By imagining Emily’s dark and dusty house I guessed that she was an older, crazy, sickly women. The description of her yard as being “stubborn” and the “coquettish decay above the cotton wagons” gave me reason to believe that she was a stubborn person who did only what she wanted, and acceptance from society was the last thing she cared about. The strand of gray hair found on the pillow next to Homer’s body was a good reminder to the reader, telling us that love was lost and wickedness is the result that death leaves behind.
2. Is Emily appearing to be “crazy” the only reason the town doesn’t like her?
ReplyDelete3. To what extreme do people judge others based on strange behavior in today’s society?
To me the short story A Rose for Emily is one of much gore and sadness. It seems as though no one in the story is content with his or her own situation, or at least pretend to be happier than they are. They spend so much time worrying, for lack of a better word, about the woman in the house because they aren’t content in their daily lives, but somehow still to busy to show genuine concern for her care.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time the townspeople can’t be blamed for what they think. It’s human nature to be frightened of the old lady at the end of the street who never comes out of her house, and when she does her interaction with the community seems peculiar, especially the part about the rat poison. It’s not right for the townspeople to assume things about what she will do with it, but keeping your mind from wondering is nearly impossible. The fact that she killed her husband and kept him in the room for years doesn’t really apply to the town because they aren’t aware of this until the very end of the story, but from a reader’s standpoint, it doesn’t help the “demented” persona she takes on.
1) Why didn't the Federal government ever get on Emily's tail about not paying her taxes?
ReplyDelete2) Do you believe that Ms. Emily has an infatuatoin with the dead? Why or why not?
2. How far does the town's tolerance of Emily extend? How crazy could she have gotten before they had her committed?
ReplyDelete3. How do you think Emily treated her "Negro"? Did she treat him like any other townsperson, or was he treated well because of all he did for her?
My response: This story was very interesting to me for a variety of reasons. For some reasons, crazy people always intrigue me. They are unpredictable and somewhat taboo, and you can’t point or stare because that wouldn’t be politically correct. So getting an up close account of people that witnessed Miss Emily’s crazy antics was unexpected but welcome.
ReplyDeleteThe townspeople tolerate Miss Emily because her family has been a pretty prominent member of the town for generations; it’s kind of ingrained in them to accept her for who she is. If she didn’t want to pay taxes, she didn’t have to for no other reason than her name was Grierson. When she got a Negro for a servant, the townspeople talked about it in whispers but never brought it up. When a questionable smell coming from her house, (I’m sorry; “mansion” is probably a better term), the townspeople turned their noses away because they knew that they didn’t want to know.
And, finally, she passed on and women took the opportunity to take a tour of the house they had not seen the inside of in ten years. And oh, what they found…
1.) To what do you think the rose in the title refers to?
ReplyDelete2.)Is it better to have someone you love leave you voluntarily or die?
ReplyDeleteThis story had a very interesting twist to the end of it. While everybody believed that her lover had left her to move to a different part of the country, it turns out that she had merely killed him and hidden the body in the upstairs bedroom. Horrible? Yes indeed. What's even more sick is the fact that she was sleeping with this dead body next to her every night! Now, we've all heard at stopping at nothing to keep your true love but this is revolting. Why did the town's people think this fat, old, senile woman crazy? Hmmmmm I wonder as to why. And it's not like she tries to dissuade the people from the idea that maybe she is a little screwed up in brain pan. She's an anti-social, possible schizophrenic who also happens to be a necrofiliac who has just achieved her apparent life-long dream of sleeping with her dead lover rather than one that can still work and function on it's own. Disturbing to the extreme.
ReplyDeleteMy Response: This story is considerably similar to Dickens's Great Expectations. Both Miss Emily and Miss Haversham are ageing ladies who live in big, dilapidated houses with only one companion. Both ladies were also jilted and have refused to change anything about their houses since the day their lovers left them. The major difference is that Miss Haversham's man escaped with his life while Homer was not so lucky.
ReplyDeleteBoth these stories, especially A Rose..., illustrate that motives for particular actions or lack thereof may be a complete mystery, and are often better left as such. The townsperson who discovered Homer's body certainly would have had better mental health had he never stumbled upon the sight.
Personally, I did not care much for the story. I think it would have been much more interesting if told from the vantage of a detective investigating the death several years later.
1) What do you think is the significance of the title?
ReplyDelete2) Do you think that people in our society are right to judge others based off of their behavior?
Response: I thought this story was somewhat depressing because of the bad outcomes that the characters experienced because
they were never satisified with what they had and were always looking for something bigger and better. I enjoyed the surprise
ending a lot. At one point in the story, like the towns people, I thought that Emily was going to kill herself with the poison.
I was shocked at the ending when she actually had killed her husband and kept him in her room for a long time. I aprreciated
the amount of detail that Faulkner put into his description of Emily. From her personality to her house, the picture that
Faulkner painted made it very easy to understand Emily. Overall, I thought this story was interesting, entertaining, but
mostly bizzare.
1.) Do you believe that it was twisted that Emily kept the dead man in her room and slept next to it basically?
ReplyDelete2.) If the whole town seemed to be talking about you, would you do what Emily did and hide in your house for years upon years or go into society and act as if nothing was ever wrong to begin with?
Lvl 2: Were the cousins only becoming a major part in Emily's life to become part of her will or did they have other motives?
ReplyDeleteLvl 3: Do you think that the tax collectors didn't make Emily pay her taxes out of pity? Or was there another reason?
Reflection: This story was very interesting and raised some eyebrows. The plot line was straight forward, but the climax of the story came out of nowhere. It reminds me of the two Kate Chopin stories we read. The plot runs smoothly until out of the blue a major turn of events happens. After this twist the reader is left slightly confused. This story is no different, after the climax I was left in confusion and i had to re-read the story to better understand what happened. Even after a second time through I was still a bit confused. If the story had more closure then I would be much happier.
Level 2: What is the significance of both Homer and Emily's father being portrayed at some point in the story with a whip in their hands?
ReplyDeleteLevel 3: Has the world changed since the ninteen thirties in regard to the way they judge people of color who are wealthy?
Response: Once again, I have been rendered speechless from an unpredictable ending. All of our short story authors so far share this quality of unpredictability. I think it's a good technique to make a story memorable. In "A Rose for Emily," I think that there exists a theme concerning love. Humans desire companionship. In an episode of "The Twilight Zone," a criminal's punishment was to be put in a mental state where he was in a world where no one existed but him. The aftermath of this: he went insane. I think that Emily desired companionship so much with the one she loved that she was willing to do anything to make him stay, literally anything. Her father forced men away, her husband did not want to settle down with her. She marinated in her sadness and allowed it to manifest into...barbaric actions. It's amazing what humans do in the name of love. Or disgusting. Either way.
My response: I believe that this story was quite odd yet intriguing. The fact that this plump, withered lady was so twisted in her mind as to keep a dead body in the room she slept in was extremely odd and slightly creepy. Did she kill the man? And why didn't she bury the body?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the different stories as Emily aged, was pretty intriguing. I really liked the description in each small story that was being told and the reactions of the townspeople in each situation. For example, as the situations worsened, one could see that the townspeople said "Poor Emily" more often. It was as if they shared pity for the woman, though it was apparent that they were just in it for the gossip. They didn't feel sorry for the woman, well not fully. The people might have felt at least some small remorse for Emily, but other than that they all knew it would happen. They knew that she would become crazy just like her family members before hand.
Each occurrence caused the story to pull me in even more. I loved reading it though I was afraid that I wouldn't like it so much. Sometimes I don't exactly like reading short stories, and so I was kind of nervous to read this one in fact. But it proved to be a good read. ^_^
1) When Emily is talking about her father that has been dead for almost ten years, do you think that she actually believes that he is alive, or is she just pretending to be crazy so the men go away?
ReplyDelete2)What do you think made Emily such a bitter, secluded person?
Response: The story was well written, and I liked how William Faulkner uses detail to describe the characters and the setting. There were many twists to this story, which kept me entertained and wanting to read more. Like Erin, as I was reading the story, I made the connection between Emily and Mrs. Haversham. I noticed it more at the end when they find the empty room. The description used about all the dust and the set up of the room reminded me of Mrs. Haversham's wedding room. I thouroughy enjoyed reading this story because of the many twists and especially the ending when SUPRISE, someone else is dead, and has been there for quiet awhile. Which explains the smell.
Faulkner does a great job of describing the characters and setting for us, even though I liked it, it was still a bit too morbid.
In response to Carrissa's level 1 question: It's the human nature to be curious. I think that Emily's seclusion is so mysterious and different that it drew the townspeople's attention. Just naturally, they wanted to know as much as they could as to why she was like that.
ReplyDeleteXcylar's level 3: The government probably knew the famed history of the Grierson's craziness and did not want to get involved, knowing all the problems that would come out of it. They also did not want to have to go ask Miss Emily and have to deal with all the choas she would kick up.
2) What was going on between Emily and her father?
ReplyDelete3) Emily was so attached and possibly afraid of being alone that she probably killed the man to make sure he wouldn't leave her. Do people still go to the extent that she did?
My response: This story was very interesting. The character Miss Emily is a very complex character. She had a very different mind set then the average person. She was not all there in the head and made her more confusing to understand. Especially when more and more about her was discovered in the story. The body of the man being found in her house was odd. Then the hair was found, Miss Emily sure did have a few screws loose. This story was very interesting and kept the imagination running the whole time.
In response to Emily's level two. Yes it was twisted and morbid for Emily to sleep next to a dead man. While that is strange for normal people, was that her normal? All her life things were never consistent, but after he died she found something that stayed the same. If she did in fact kill him then obviously she was trying to make something consistent to dull her pain. While killing someone and hoarding the body is not okay, the reasoning behind it needs to be looked at as well.
ReplyDeleteMy response to Erin level three. Loving someone is a powerful consept. If in fact love was present to the end, wouldn't having a loved one leave be the worst feeling. Having someone get up and walk away from a life planned out for two is horrible, the other person must just die inside. While having them die while still being with that person is awful. Having to wonder what that person may be doing with their life, having constent reminders of the life you once had would be gut renching. Having them die knowing that they loved you with all their heart would be a better feeling then wondering what went wrong.
2) What experiences could have led to Emily's desire to keep a dead body with her in her bed?
ReplyDelete3) The whole concept of Emily sleeping with a dead man is creepy and disgusting, but is there actually anything morally wrong with it? Is it considered a sinful action, or is it just weird?
R) Initially, the story had a very familiar feel to it, something about a mysterious woman in a house reminded me of something, possibly Emily Dickenson. It liked how it backtracked, starting with her death and then slowly giving the reader the pieces that led up to it; only to turn the whole puzzle on its head at the end. I think the point of view was a good choice by the author as it added another slightly mysterious character. It never really came out and said who the narrator was, but little clues led to implications, and the perspective allowed the story to be told with all the necessary details. For me, the story was average all up until the end, which then made it slightly better than average. Thought provoking surprises or twists can often make a story much more interesting, at least in my opinion.
Level 2) Why was Miss Emily so insistent on using arsenic instead of other poisons?
ReplyDeleteLevel 3) If you were in Miss Emily's situation what would be your thought process concerning men? Concerning your father?
My first thought concerning the story was "Where could this story possibly lead?" As it continued, I kept that thought right alongside. There were a lot of things I didn't like about the plot and the characterization process, but I stayed in-tune to the story and hung in there. When she went to the store to get the poison, I thought for sure that she was gonna kill herself, and I officially gave up on the story. Though, when the end reached, I was shocked :O and a little disgusted with that chick. I still have that thought, what was the point of that story?
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ReplyDeletecorey said. . .
ReplyDeletelevel 2) what's the meaning behind the title? and why do you think it is calles a rose for emilly?
level 3)put yourself in emilly's shoes. how would you feel if you did what you did?
I definetly didn't have a clue at where the story could possibly go. As the story went on I felt a little freaked out by Emilly and what could've possibly been going on in her head. She made it to the store and got the poison and I just thought this girl was CRAZY, I was just thinking that Emilly was on the road for suicide. I was wrong she went the total opposite direction. The story wasnt good and i loved the storm.
Level 2. Do you think Emily killed her man, and if so what was her motive?
ReplyDeleteLevel 3 - Would you have thoughts about killing your husband just because you found out he was a gay and the whole relationship you had was just a cover?
Response. I think the story was interesting but i think its pretty messed up. Like, who puts a dead body in a bed and keeps it in their house. Its also reallllllly weird (if i am correct in this assumption) that she must have laid next to the body or done something near it when it was in the bed seeing as the last sentence said there was her hair by his body. This story was messed up, she went from skinny to all huge and stuff. Yo i got this done at 11:59, WHAT!
franzfrenzied is Noah btw
ReplyDeleteIn response to Jim's level two: I think that people are drawn to the unknow, wierd, and mysterious, so the more you try to keep to yourself nd the more you hide the more people will want to know about you. By remaining in her house and acting mysterious, Miss Emily was arousing even more wonder and curiosity from the townspeople than had she talked to people occasionally and allowed people inside her home. by keeping to herself, she was giving them something intriguing to guess at and talk about, something unusual. so they did.
ReplyDeleteTo Alicia's level 2: I think that the reason Emily was such a secluded person was because ever since she was little, her father didn't want her having any connections with any other guys besides himself. It's the natural human nature within us that wants a significant other because we're emotional beings. If you were restricted from talking the oppsite sex, you would become that way because you strive for that so much. I strongly believe it mentally tramatized her and that's why she grew up that way.
ReplyDeleteIn a Rose for Emily Joesph Faukner writes an unpredictable narrative about a woman named Emily. This story is indeed disturbing at times and shows the devastating effects that a person endures if they live without experienceing love or having a sense of purpose. I enjoyed how the story consisted of many twists and turns and encouraged the reader to question the effects of living without knowing love.
ReplyDeleteLevel 2 question- Do you believe that Emily's difficult childhood affected her sanity as an adult?
Level 3 question- Are you disgusted with Emily hiding the dead body, or do you feel emphathy for her?
Great discussion so far! Malinda, I love your response to the story as a whole, you have wonderful insight! Rachel, great second question, I didn't even pick up on that. Cole and Noah, you have great level 3 questions that allow us to put ourselves in her shoes. Good work!
ReplyDeleteSarah, the author's name is William Faulkner. Great questions for discussion.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Ian’s second question, did Emily have an infatuation with the dead, I believe that she was not infatuated with them but was given the feeling of empowerment. The town thought of the Grierson family as a tableau, with the image of Emily being a slender figure in the background while her father was in the foreground with his back to Emily, holding a horsewhip. This image gave me the impression that her father was very controlling of her. This command over Emily gave her reason to crave power herself, giving her the urge to control herself and others. When Emily’s father died, she finally had the power she wanted, she uses this power by rejecting the fact that his body should be buried. She continues to manipulate her way through life by not paying her taxes and not allowing the numbers to be attached to her house for the new mail system. As Homer, a scandalous lover, comes into the picture Emily’s desire to acquire his love forces her to take his life, so she can have the control of his affection. In Emily’s need to be so controlling the only person that she could connection with is that of a person with no life.
ReplyDeleteTo Elissa: 3) Emily was so attached and possibly afraid of being alone that she probably killed the man to make sure he wouldn't leave her. Do people still go to the extent that she did? Yes, actually. I've gone to a wedding where the "Till death do us part" was omitted because the couple felt that they would survive each other beyond death. Neither one of them are dead, just a point of clarification, but its the same basic idea. There is this feeling that you can always be together, even after death. Why did she kill him? Possibly because he had begun to show signs of not wanting to stay with her all the time, so she poisoned him (crude, but effective), to keep him with her.
ReplyDeleteTo Alicia: 2)What do you think made Emily such a bitter, secluded person? Possible answer: Her dad's control over her. I feel, and this is just my person opinion so you can crumple it up and throw it away, but I feel that when parents begin to get so involved with their child's social life that they won't even let them out of the house and Horsewhip them to keep them inside, it's not going to have the best effects on a person. We only see Emily's dad once (the horsewhip in his hands), but it's not too far out of the realm of possibility to suggest that he did whip/beat her to keep her away from having a social life (cough cough BOYS! cough). It really does play hari-kari with people if they've been couped up alone for far too long.
Malinda on your response: Intriguing. Very fascinating way to look at that. It makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you.
In response to Erin’s first question, what does the rose in the title refer to; I feel that there are many possible references the rose has to the story. The rose could be a tribute to the last of the Griersons, as Emily was the last living member of the proud, wealthy family. A rose is a symbolic meaning of love and passion; they are normally a flower found at weddings being a promise to love during hardships. Emily prepared for a wedding, she wanted to marry Homer, a rose was her promise to love him through hardship, and in this case the hardship was death. The story describes Homer’s body as being coated with the dust, faded and decaying like a dried and faded rose would, giving reason the rose could be a symbol for Homer. In the story many things described in the house are given a faded rose color. This could symbolize that just as the rose color was fading from the curtains so was the sanity of Miss Emily.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Ryan's second level question I believe that there was a couple of experiences that made her desire to keep a dead body. First the fact of her father driving away so many men with his resentfulness. This caused her to want to keep the one man that she had loved. Unfortunately for her he was gay. Since he was game she had to take drastic measures to keep the one man she had ever been able to grown attached too. These expieriences collect along with the lose of her father. So in result the only way to calm her feelings of despare she kept and sleep with the dead body of the man she so love.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Joel's third level question I believe it is to an extreme that we do not even see anymore. Most people think they are what most people would say as "normal". With this statement being made this gives the "normal" person the authority to judge people. With this ability it is anything and everything than causes a person to judge. It can be the simplest thing from what they are wearing all the way to how they walk. Often a person will just do this to feel more powerful than the person they are judging. The fact is everybody judges, but why? Think about if I judge someone because of their southern accent, and then on the other end they judge me for my midwest accent. What did that accomplish. We both just judged but did it help anyone, no! To be simple society can be quite harsh and needs to stop judging so much where judging is not deserved.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Erin's level three question, I would say that it is better to love someone and voluntarily let them leave you. If you truly love someone, you have to be willing to let them act on their own and not force them to stay with you. Forcing them to stay with you until you die is cruel especially if the other person does not feel the same way towards you. If something is driving a relationship apart, you either have to face it and find a solution or separate. Forcing someone to stay and suppressing the problem is not a healthy way to go about something.
ReplyDelete2)do you think homer is completely gay if so prove it?
ReplyDelete3)what possible effects did the time period have in the way each charecter was treated?
Response: A rose for emily is an interesting story with lots of twists and turns.It shows how people being shunned from scoiety have a negative effect on the world. Also that when people are by themselves for a long time they may go crazy. The suprise ending is the only good part of the book as it lacks action and just sets up for the end of the story. This gothic story had alot of evilness in it and unholy things.
ps. please Mrs. thomas never give us an assignment due at friday midnight because i will never be able to do it, mostly because i have a life.
In response to Noah's first question, I do think that Emily killed him. She knew that he loved someone else, and so out of desperation, she did the only thing she thought she could do to prevent it and killed him. With him dead, he no longer had the ability to leave Emily, which gave Emily everything she wanted in the marriage; to be with him forever.
ReplyDeleteIn response to coreys third question. if i was Emily i would have a tremendous amount of remorse for my terrible actions. I would feel worse about myself and would run away from everything i had done.
ReplyDeletein response to ryans second question. I woulks say people can judge others by the way they act because actions are louder than words. also if people might have judged emily more and found her to be crazy. this observation could have helped saved lives.
To Alicia's level 3: I think her father's treatment of her really had something do with her seclusion. In the photograph he had his back towards her, indicating that he had no respect her.
ReplyDeleteto kayla's level 3: i think i would have acted the same way. i would have taken myself out of the situation as much as possible and would have respected the "limits" that society has put over my input.
In response to Erin 2: I believe it is better to experience a lover leaving you than to go through the pain of the lover dying. If your lover suddenly passed away you would spend the rest of your life wondering what might have been. However if the lover is upfront with you even though you endure the pain of a broken heart you can have a sense of closure and in time you can move forward with your life.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Elissa 2: I believe Emily and her father had very unconventional and harmful relationship. This is evident in a picture that shows Emily's father with a whip and his back facing Emily. This could symbolize that her father did not respect Emily and shows the possibility that her father abused her.
In response to Corey's Level 3, I think I would feel extremely guilty and grossed out with my behavior. But that is coming from all of my experiences, my personality, and my values, while it is impossible to know what I would have done or thought if I was not only put in her shoes at that time, but throughout her whole life.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Sarah's level 3, I would have to say I am disgusted AND I feel sympathy. The act itself is no doubt disgusting, but I also feel bad that she is deranged enough to do the things she did. She had a rough childhood and she was definitely not a very stable person and for that I have sympathy.
Xcylar's Question 3: Why did the government not investigate the bad smell coming from the house if it was that bad?
ReplyDeleteWould that really be the governments job? I could see maybe someone asking the police to investigate but i don't think the government should be responsible for that. Also didn't the neighbors or someone sneak around to try to cover the smell or see what it was coming from or something?
Cole's Level 3) If you were in Miss Emily's situation what would be your thought process concerning men? Concerning your father?
If I was Emily, I would never be able to love a man again. I think the hurt of believing someone loves you when they realy dont would be too deep to let heal. It sucks when you find out someone isn't who you thought they were.
In response to Carissa's level two question, in most cases, many people love to pry into others' business. They don't that the manners, or the common sense to stay out of it. Which means that when a person starts to go "crazy" like Emily did in the story, those greedy for gossip jumped on her case like a wild animal stalking its prey. Although she was clearly keeping to herself, showing that she didn't want anyone else's attention, the townspeople couldn't not stay out of a supposedly good story.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Elissa's level three, I believe that in some kind of way that people do. We might not hear a lot about those stories, but there are certainly those where a lady kills their husband because they cheated on them! In a sense, that is almost the same as killing someone so that they wont be alone. Though their motives are a bit odd because they end up on their own after everything is said and done. :/
To Brittany's #2 question: I don't think that the town really cared how crazy Emily was getting. She spent all her time cooped up in her house that the town didn't have much interaction with her. If she was a bigger part of the town then the people's tolerance for her would have changed dramatically.
ReplyDeleteTo Xcylar's #2 question: I think he ran away because he did not want to get questioned about Emily's death. He probably knew about the dead guy in the bedroom and he probably knew how and when it happened. He would most likely go to jail for assisting in the murder. If that was me I would run too.
In response to Alicia's level 2 question: I personally believe that Emily is crazy, but she still has some sanity. In the situation Alicia presented, I believe she is using her "insanity" to get rid of her taxes. She knows her father is dead, she just doesn't want to pay her taxes.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Ryan L.'s level 3 question: I do not believe there is anything morally wrong with Miss Emily laying with her dead husband. First, because she is insane and second, because she simply wants to hold on to the one she loves. It's just a little weird.
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ReplyDeleteYes, we can deduce from the story that Emily killed her husband. The reason she did this is because, to her, there was no other option if she didn't want to be alone. This would secure that he really would be with her forever. It puts an interesting twist on the words, "Until death do you part," no?
In response to Sarah's number 3: I'm not disgusted with Emily. I see why she took certain measures. However, I don't empathize with her (seeing as I have never loved someone enough to kill them). What I look at when I see Emily is a tragic search for affectionate companionship that leads to desperate actions. I empathize (know what she is going through) with her need for love, as all humans should, I think. But I can only sympathize (to feel sorry for, even though I don't know what it's like) with the situation as a whole. Sorry if this response does not appear fully "with it," I just filled out a couple college applications.
Ryan's level two:
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's necesarilly an experience or certain moment that leads her to keep a dead body in bed with her, and i also don't think the fact that it's a body is what's important to her, it's the fact that it's what remains of her husband. Often times when a spouse in an older couple dies the other soon dies of a broken heart. She didn't know how to live without him, so she lived with what she still had of him, as disgusting as it is. To ELissa's number three: I don't think people necesarilly go to the same extent today because there is more of a chance it will not go unnoticed as it did in this story. That being said there are other things that happen today that resemble these same paranoid fears of being alone. There are even such things as pregnancy pacts where girls make a pact to get pregnant so that they have a "family setting" put in place by law, simply out of convenience and paranoia that this can't be achieved in a rational, less deceitful way.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to Rachel's level three question i believe that the world has changed the way they judge wealthy people of color. Even though our world still has racial prejudice we have welcomed colored people and it has become the social norm that colored people have the become our equal.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Ryan Weems level three question i believe it is no ones right to judge others based on behavior or anything for that matter. Why do some get to put themselves above others and judge? Who decides right from wrong? Judging others is an opinion based action and it is no ones right to impose judgement on others.
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ReplyDeleteThe author's significance of the "negro" leaving at the end of the story and never being seen again may be that now that the Griersons are dead he dosnt have to be around them anymore and can go somewhere else.
To Ian's #2 question:
I dont think she has an infatuation with the dead so much as a fear of being alone and maybe she views Homer's corpse as more company then the unnamed slave. Why would be a good question if that were the case, maybe the servant talks about as much as the corpse.
2.How does Faulkner convey the tone at the beginning of his story, and how does he keep that tone consistent throughout it?
ReplyDelete3.What do you think was Faulkner’s inspiration for this narrative? Was there a specific person or incidence that it was based on?
Response: Miss Emily in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner reminded me, at first, of Miss Havisham in Charles Dicken’s "Great Expectations" because of the supposed desertion of her fiancée, and because of the neglected state of her house after the event. The tone of the entire piece was really mysterious and creepy. At first it was confusing, because of the way the author jumped around between certain events, but this style of writing gave it an ominous feeling and kept the reader’s attention. It also made the story seem like it was being told by a bunch of people, kind of like gossip between parties. How the people of the town viewed Miss Emily continually changed as they could only judge her by what they observed, not actually knowing anything about her at all, as seen in the end of the story. The resolution of the narrative was shocking, especially when the reader found out that Homer Barron never left the room. The nonchalant manner in which it seemed to be described by the author “The man himself lay in the bed” (Faulkner 655), made it even more chilling. I am not sure of whether or not I liked "A Rose for Emily," although I did find it interesting.
In reponse to Carrissa level 2 questioin:
ReplyDeleteI think the fact that Emily did keep to herself and that the towns people knew so little about her was what spurred their curiosity and their gossip. In describing Emily's funeral, Faulkner says that the women of the town went "mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house."
In response to Alex's level 3 question:
ReplyDeleteI think that they did not make Emily pay her taxes out of pity and also out of fear as they saw her as insane. The people of the town suggested both as they continually called her "poor Emily" but they also continually alluded to her crazy relatives and family members such as Old Lady Wyatt.
Sarahs #2 i do think that her bad childhood would have a major effect on how she would be as an adalt and her sanity level.the events and the way people were raised shape the way they turn out.
ReplyDeletexcylars#3 I dont get why they wouldnt have investigated it. who cares if she would get affended. im pretty sure that she wouldnt want to smell a stench from one of her neighbors.
2. Why would Miss Emily poison the man she loved after she married him? And why would she leave him in the bed to rot in her house for forty years?
ReplyDelete3. “The past is not a diminishing road but instead, a huge meadow in which no winter ever quite touches.” This quote implies that there are two different ways to view the past. Explain what this quote is saying and which way you personally view the past.
Response: A Rose for Emily is a very different story. At first it was hard to understand. I didn’t really know what was going on because it moved quickly through the events that happened and they were not explained clearly. I didn’t understand why the men were wishing they had courted Miss Emily after she had died. She was a crazy lady and she wasn’t attractive. She didn’t have money either. There was nothing about her that seemed appealing and yet all of the men seemed like they were head-over-heels for her. I can understand why the women would be curious about her because she was crazy and didn’t leave her house in ten years and I would want to know how she spent her days alone in that big house. I thought it was interesting that the people in the town felt bad for Miss Emily and she turned out to be a crazy murderer. When her cousins came to stay with her I knew from the beginning that something would go wrong and they would leave. The story never really told us why the left though. I didn’t expect the town to find Homer Barron dead in Miss Emily’s house. Overall I didn’t like this story very much, but there were parts that were intriguing.
In response to Erin's #2 I think that it is better to have someone you love die rather than leave you. When they leave you, it lowers your self-esteem and it hurts because you know they didn't want to be with you. But if they die, it still hurts to not have them, but you at least know that they loved you.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Carrissa's #2 I think the towns people were interested because it is something unknown. Even today if someone is keeping a secret from you it will drive you crazy and you have to figure it out. In the story Miss Emily was someone that no one knew about and because her life was so different it intrigued them.
respone to malindas level 3 q: i think she gets whatever she wants because she has a strong personality and tended to get what she wanted because of her personality
ReplyDeleteresponse to noah level 3 q: i would definetly have the feelings of killing myhusband if i found out he was gay because if he couldn't tell me he was gay before our relationship started then why should i feel bad for him at all? i would definetly want to kill him
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