Many of these passages about death revolve around fixations. For example, Miss Emily's fixation on the fact that she does not pay taxes, "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson," (Faulkner, 283). This smaller fixation relates to the bigger picture of her life. She is also fixated and motivated by the fear of being alone. She held onto her father's body for several days before the town took it away. Later then, she may have killed her almost fiance to keep his body in her upstairs room. She then became fixated on his memory and the life they could have had; this fixation exemplified through evidence that revealed she slept by his rotting corpse. The towns people (also the narrators) believe that she slept next to him because the repeated motif of "iron gray hair" that was found in an indentation in the pillow next to the corpse's head. In many ways, we feel sorry for Emily through the townspeople's feelings towards her; had they hated her, I believe that we would have an entirely different perspective.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A Rose for Emily
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
Many of these passages about death revolve around fixations. For example, Miss Emily's fixation on the fact that she does not pay taxes, "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson," (Faulkner, 283). This smaller fixation relates to the bigger picture of her life. She is also fixated and motivated by the fear of being alone. She held onto her father's body for several days before the town took it away. Later then, she may have killed her almost fiance to keep his body in her upstairs room. She then became fixated on his memory and the life they could have had; this fixation exemplified through evidence that revealed she slept by his rotting corpse. The towns people (also the narrators) believe that she slept next to him because the repeated motif of "iron gray hair" that was found in an indentation in the pillow next to the corpse's head. In many ways, we feel sorry for Emily through the townspeople's feelings towards her; had they hated her, I believe that we would have an entirely different perspective.
Many of these passages about death revolve around fixations. For example, Miss Emily's fixation on the fact that she does not pay taxes, "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson," (Faulkner, 283). This smaller fixation relates to the bigger picture of her life. She is also fixated and motivated by the fear of being alone. She held onto her father's body for several days before the town took it away. Later then, she may have killed her almost fiance to keep his body in her upstairs room. She then became fixated on his memory and the life they could have had; this fixation exemplified through evidence that revealed she slept by his rotting corpse. The towns people (also the narrators) believe that she slept next to him because the repeated motif of "iron gray hair" that was found in an indentation in the pillow next to the corpse's head. In many ways, we feel sorry for Emily through the townspeople's feelings towards her; had they hated her, I believe that we would have an entirely different perspective.
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