ENG 1120 Lecture 5: a Rose for Emily by Faulkner
5 Feb 2016
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Tuesday, february 2, 2016 a rose for emily by faulkner. Based on gossip which leads to memory. Gothic because: form is maturing, becomes more heavily weighted with psychological angle. Describe her as a waterlogged corpse, image of corpses, skeletons and decay is being set up. Tarnished is repeated tarnished gold and gilt. Tarnished is used to describe reputation gossip can ruin a reputation. Unmarried woman: having sex before marriage would ruin their reputation. Decaying house and decaying woman (body and mind, doesn"t understand passage of time) Takes place in the old south u. s. in 1950s-1920s. Discriminatory society, getting an idea of what kind of provisions and terms used. Racists is only one of the ways society is shown to be narrow minded. Narrow minded when it comes to class division, behaviours of women. Emily laid beside homer after she killed him (iron grey hair)
