A ROSE FOR EMILY

By: William Faulkner(1897-1962)

Setting: 

•This story was particularly happened in one of the town in Jefferson.

Characters:

•Miss Emily Grierson The woman who lost her mind because of old age and decay.

•Colonel Sartoris Father of Miss Emily.•Homer Barron The only man that loved

by Miss Emily.•Judge Steven The mayor of Jefferson’s

town.

INTRODUCTION:

•This story was written of one of the great writers in America, William Faulkner. He truly wrote a beautiful story which is “A ROSE FOR EMILY” this one of the best story he had published. It seems a unique story because when you read the title maybe the first thing that comes in your mind is a lady who received a flower from someone, but it’s definitely not like that. The character of the said flower will reflect to the personality of one of the character which is EMILY.

SUMMARY: • In Jefferson’s town where the family Grierson was living, their house was one

of the most beautiful in the town. Colonel Sartoris is the father of the family, he has a daughter named Emily, she is beautiful but no man would dare to court her because of Colonel Sartoris.

• When Colonel Sartoris died Miss Emily got frustrated, she almost forgot her self, and she won’t even went out of her house and to the point that the house has smell because she didn’t take care anymore. As days passed by Miss Emily has changes in her personality, she became fat, the color of her hair turns into gray and he lost her looked before and other people called her poor Emily.

• One time when Miss Emily dare to went out of her house she met Homer Barron and after some days had passed by they became a lover and to the point that they will get married. Others felt happy for Emily because finally she met the man that she will love. But after several days that they heard that Emily and Homer Barron got married they were not able to see Barron in the town.

• One time Miss Emily bought a rat poison, the Arsenic. Old people have no any idea why she bought a rat poison but they just ignored about this. Emily was really running out of her mind because of what she had done, she poisoned the man that she loved and left the body in her bed. She didn’t even buried the body of Homer Barron, she totally lost her mind and old age come in her way until she got died.

CONCLUSION:

•Life is too short to waste even single day of it, the lost of one of our love ones doesn’t mean the end of our life. It’s not that easy but we must accept the reality, that’s life and we have nothing to do but to go with the flow. Life is one of a great blessings that we have and we must treasure every moment of our life even in sickness and in health.

LESSON:

•This story entitled “A ROSE FOR EMILY” the writer wants to tell us that, like a flower we will get older and decay especially when we will not take care of our self. No matter how the flower smell good and beautiful and even you take care of it but when several days, weeks or months will pass by it will lost it’s smell and beautiful looked how much more if you will just left it anywhere and just ignore it.

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Prepared by:

Quirequire, Marnneth A.