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Title: What contrasts does the narrator draw between changing reality andEmilys refusal or inability to ...
Post by: stephzh on Jul 20, 2018
What contrasts does the narrator draw between changing reality andEmilys refusal or inability to recognize change?
 
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Question 2

What foreshadowings of the discovery of the body of Homer Barron arewe given earlier in the story? Share your experience in reading A Rose for Emily: did the foreshadowings give away the ending for you? Did they heighten your interest?
 
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Title: What contrasts does the narrator draw between changing reality andEmilys refusal or inability to ...
Post by: JCABRERA33 on Jul 20, 2018
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In fact, these foreshadowings are so evident it is a wonder that, for those reading the story for the first time, the ending is so surprising. Much of the surprise seems due to the narrators back-and-forth, non-chronological method of telling the events of the story. We arent told in proper sequence that (1) Emily buys poison, (2) Homer disappears, and (3) there is a mysterious odora chain of events that might immediately rouse our suspicions. Instead, we hear about odor, poison, and disappearance, in that order. By this arrangement, any connection between these events is made to seem a little less obvious, adding to the storys Gothic tone.
Faulkners mysterious story also resembles a riddle, argues Charles Clay Doyle of the University of Georgia. The resemblance exists not so much in the storys structure or rhetoric,
as in the tricky way it presents clues, clues that tell the truth but at the same time mislead or fail to enlighten. The pleasure of discovery experienced by readers of the story resembles the pleasure we take in learning the answer to a riddle: we are astonished that the solution, which now seems so obvious, so inevitable, could have eluded us. (Mute Witnesses: Faulkners Use of a Popular Riddle, Mississippi Folklore Register 24 1990: 5355)
Furthermore, Doyle identifies an allusion to a well-known riddle in Faulkners final description of Emilys chamber: Homers two mute shoes and the discarded socks. The riddle is, What has a tongue but cant speak? (Answer: a shoe.) Taking the phrase mute shoes to echo the riddle, Doyle thinks the shoes are a pair of silent witnesses who, in their way, resemble the narrator himself, who shows us the truth but does not state it outright
Title: What contrasts does the narrator draw between changing reality andEmilys refusal or inability to ...
Post by: stephzh on Jul 20, 2018
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Title: What contrasts does the narrator draw between changing reality andEmilys refusal or inability to ...
Post by: JCABRERA33 on Jul 20, 2018
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