A Rose for Emily Short Story Style Analysis

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Professor West Wednesday, April 15, 2015 ! ! Style Analysis “A Rose For Emily” One thing William Faulkner did with the style of writing for this short story was how he made it seem like they were reliving her life, only backwards. It started off with her death, but slowly went back till she was about 30 years old. It explains that every year, the Aldermen and Mayors sent her a tax form, which she sent back, unclaimed, about a week later. Mrs. Emily believed that she didn’t have to pay taxes, but the town didn’t have any records of that. ! He also used space between the different times, so even if it didn’t say what date it was, you could tell it was farther back in the past. He split the story into 5 mini chapters. “So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.” (2) She had been told by Colonel Sartoris that she no longer had to pay taxes for the rest of her life, but when the new Aldermen called on her to collect the tax money 10 years after the Colonel died and didn’t know what she was talking about. The town had no record of what she was saying, so they didn’t believe her. So, after they finished explaining, she explained to them that she didn’t have to pay taxes, and vanquished them out of her house. Then it went 30 years further back, to explain why she vanquished their fathers. This creates a little bit of mystery as well as going back in time to explain her. STYLE ANALYSIS “A ROSE FOR EMILY” !1 She never changed anything about herself and in doing so, made everyone in the town think she was crazy. “People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were… She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her,

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