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Title: Plot Structure of


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Plot Structure of A Rose for Emily
  • Essential Question
  • What did Faulkner accomplish by writing his story
    nonlinearly?
  • (YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BY
    THE END OF THESE NOTES!)

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • By taking apart Faulkners story we are able to
    see the genius of the plot structure

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily Linear
Timeline
  • Section II Her father dies, and for three days
    she refuses to acknowledge his death.
  • Section III Homer Barron arrives in town and
    begins to court Miss Emily.
  • Section IV She buys a mans silver toilet seta
    mirror, razor, brush comband mens
    clothing.
  • Section III The town relegates her to disgrace
    and sends for her cousins.
  • Section IV The cousins arrive, and Homer
    leaves town.
  • Section IV Three days after the cousins leave,
    Homer returns.
  • Section III Miss Emily buys poison at the
    local drug store.
  • Section IV Homer disappears.
  • Section II A horrible stench envelops Miss
    Emilys house.
  • Section II Four town aldermen secretly
    sprinkle lime on her lawn.
  • ect(see you flow chart for the rest)

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • But reconstructing the plot in a linear fashion
    renders Faulkners masterpiece an injustice
  • Lets find out why

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • Lets look at the central events chronologically
  • Miss Emilys Father dies and she wants to keep
    his body
  • Miss Emily buys poison
  • Homer Barron disappears suddenly
  • A horrible stench surrounds the house
  • It is apparent why she buys the poison, and what
    causes the stenchshe killed Homer!
  • There is no mystery about what happened to Homer
    and what the smell is

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Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • When we continue to look chronologically at the
    remaining events after Homers death, the story
    is quite dull
  • Emily isnt seen for 6 months
  • Emily gives china painting lessons
  • Men see her about her taxes
  • She dies

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • When we take the plot apart, the only surprise we
    are left with is at the end and the shocking
    realization that Miss Emily has slept for many
    years in the same bed with her dead lovers
    rotting corpse.
  • The horror of this knowledge makes the murder of
    Homer almost insignificant when compared to the
    necrophilia.
  • Necrophiliaa morbid attraction toward corpses

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • If the story was written in a linear fashion,
    half way through the story, the reader would know
    that Emily obviously murdered Homer
  • But because we only get bits of the story at
    random times, the story acts like a murder mystery

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Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • At the end of the story, the reader is not only
    shocked that Emily murdered Homer, but they are
    horrified to find she was sleeping with his dead
    body as well
  • The end is dual--climatic (double whammy climax)

10
Plot of Plot of A Rose for Emily
  • The greatness of the story lies not making the
    plot linear
  • Instead it is great because Faulkner leaves us
    horrified as we discover, bit by bit, the mystery
    of Emily Griesons life
  • The reader experiences an epiphany (an ah ha!
    moment of realization)

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What Does the Title Mean?Why Plot of A Rose for
Emily
  • Let me hear your ideas

12
  • William Faulkner speaks on A Rose for Emily in
    1955
  • I feel sorry for Emily's tragedy her tragedy
    was, she was an only child, an only daughter. At
    first when she could have found a husband, could
    have had a life of her own, there was probably
    some one, her father, who said, "No, you must
    stay here and take care of me." And then when she
    found a man, she had had no experience in people.
    She picked out probably a bad one, who was about
    to desert her. And when she lost him she could
    see that for her that was the end of life, there
    was nothing left, except to grow older, alone,
    solitary she had had something and she wanted to
    keep it, which is bad--to go to any length to
    keep something

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  • but I pity Emily. I don't know whether I would
    have liked her or not, I might have been afraid
    of her. Not of her, but of anyone who had
    suffered, had been warped, as her life had been
    probably warped by a selfish father . . . . The
    title was an allegorical title the meaning was,
    here was a woman who had had a tragedy, an
    irrevocable tragedy and nothing could be done
    about it, and I pitied her and this was a salute
    . . . to a woman you would hand a rose.

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Complete you C-Notes
  • 4 Level One Questions
  • 3 Level Two Question
  • 2 Level Three Questions
  • Use the column provided
  • Space your questions throughout the entire length
    of your notes
  • Write a 5 sentence summary and make sure you can
    answer the essential question from the front page!
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