A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner | Summary & Analysis
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Professor Bill Yarrow of Joliet Junior College provides an in-depth analysis of the plot, characters, symbols, and themes of William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily.
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The deliciously macabre A Rose for Emily begins with the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, an old spinster in the post-Civil War South. She becomes a topic of speculation and performative pity for the residents of a small Southern town.
In the present, she is cloistered in her family home. Years before, she was courted by the Yankee Homer Barron, and then jilted by him after he rejected her overtures of marriage. In the wake of this disappointment, she retreated from society and became increasingly eccentric.
Following her death, it emerges that she killed Barron and arranged his corpse in a bridal suite, living with it for decades like a homicidal Miss Havisham or Norman Bates.
Laden with detailed descriptions of the changing society of the post-Civil War South and memorably evoking the prurient curiosity of small town life, the story evokes a deeply creepy and darkly amusing view of romance and its discontents.
Mississippi native William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily was first published in 1930. Though Faulkner’s short stories were popular, he viewed them as a means of quick income between novels such as The Sound and the Fury. His disturbing short story A Rose for Emily epitomizes the Southern Gothic.
The short story contains many powerful symbols including the Griersons’s house, representing Miss Emily’s broken dreams as it slides into disrepair; gray hair, representing the passage of time; and a man’s toilet set, embodying hope for Miss Emily’s relationship with Barron. Important themes include tradition versus progress, the post-Civil War south, and the patriarchy.
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“Suggests that homer might be homosexual”, while in the text it says “homer liked men, and said it himself”
lmao
yeah I found that part of the video funny
it's like that elders react episode where that lady said "they seem to be good friends"
Watch it
Homer-Sexual
I got confused while reading the piece when they jumped between different points in time. But this gave me some much needed clarity.
definitely. the different parts and the jumps in time confused me. I understood the point and gist of the story. I was just struggling to keep up with the time personally.
I agree Mr Mooseman.
Thank you I fell asleep in my zoom call hehe
Did the exact same thing...
Saw someone sleeping... and getting kick off the call lol
Awawwaw
naahh I just watched anime f*ck this...
What a goof hahaha
My literature teacher was like "Emily, did you know there's a cat here at school also named Emily? I wanted to bring up something positive before we start with a story including a murderer Emily" >.>
your teacher a good one for that
Such detailed explanation! Much needed for my lit class. Thank you sir!
Absolutely saved my English grade!
Clutch, passing my AP Lit class bc of you!
yo me too
Thank you soooooo muchhh for making these types of videos, they have help me a lot and is so easy to understand the way you tell the story
Thank you so much. This was very helpful!
Great and helpful, dear professor!
Thank you so much
Thank you Sir! Gonna finish my homework now! Very helpful explanation
This helped me write an essay so thank you
Thanks for the kind explanation. It helps a lot!
I got my Lit test tomorrow. Good luck everyone.
I was confused about the timeline changes and I felt as if the interpretation of the story was really left up to the readers and was sort of vague so this helped A LOT.
Thank you very much!!
than you so much it helped a lot in my quiz
Thank you!
Thank you so much
Thank god for this video , reading the story made me loose so many of my already few brain cells
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In the context of the story, Homer Barron is not homosexual. In the story it says, "Homer himself had remarked---he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club---that he was not a marrying man." The story is not implying that he is homosexual, but rather saying he does not want to be in a marital relationship with someone. This implies that he likes the bachelor lifestyle. When I first read the story, I too thought he was homosexual, but with a closer look I do not believe that is what Faulkner was portraying. He would not bring up that Homer was not a marrying man if he was homosexual, because if he was homosexual it would not matter if he was a marrying man or not since Emily is a woman. I believe Homer, as many men do, just appreciates time with the boys! But who's to say it doesn't become a deeper bromance at times, lol! Maybe he is homosexual, you never know. Either way, it's a good story 😜
But he didn't say Homer Barron is homosexual. He expression was in that from the storyline, Homer Barron might be homosexual...the stressed word her "might be"
The story is clearly implying that he is romantic with those men.
I’m an English teacher, and I just taught this to two classes of 11th graders. Both classes immediately took it has Homer being homosexual with me just asking, “What do we learn about Homer?” However, I did first interpret it as him being rather chilling with the bros over marrying. On the other hand, my students said he’s gay and that it couldn’t be explicitly stated due to the time period, and that if Emily couldn’t marry him (since he wasn’t a marrying man due to being gay) then she was going to make sure he couldn’t leave her. I see their interpretation.
thank you so much for this my kind friend Kim shared this to me because I'm lazy af to read it myself.
i like u
No more from you
Thank you sir it was so clear and helpful.
It helped me in making my notes.
Sur could you make a video on " A bachelor's complain of the behavior of Married people ". By - Charles lamb
bts lol
please i have exam in coming days and i need analysis and a summary
Çok teşekkürler...
Time to soak up and regurgitate another book
AirPods Pro make this sound cool haha but thank you was hard to understand the story!
很有帮助
Stream of counsciousness?
This was college homework for me lol thank you sir you have a new sub
COLLEGE??! i'm doing this for honors english in 9th grade?!
same
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@@lialancaster9512 It's possible. I read this short novel in college.
Perhaps that's because I'm not an English native speaker.
@@lialancaster9512 that’s weird then. this is definitely an above high school literature piece. usually this story comes up during AP LIT or college.
cool story bro
Make a video on Absalom Absalom!
thanks, boast! eapp essay matic - 60.
yandere much....but ouuu, a yandere like story in my English class, cool
she's too old to be Yandere. It's not cute or hot anymore its yuck and creepy.
I sincerely hope there will be Chinese subtitle, please!!!
salamat bro
The modern remake: A Rose for Marge.
so what are the societal preasures in this story
@@OmegaSlice108 i did thanks though
So was the bad small from the dead body?
Yes i think so
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So a woman fell in love with her gay bestfriend
I think miss Emily was doing more than just sleeping next to homers corpse. 😏
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My lit teacher said that he wasn't homosexual, he was just a frat boy
😭😭😭
Why do so many teachers misinterpret the story?
If he was straight, Emily would have had no reason to kill him.
The context is clear.
She wanted to marry him but he told her the truth about him.
Him being a frat boy wouldn't change his relationship towards Emily enough
The animation made her too skinny XD
thank you, that shit was confusing as fuck
This is a yandere 😕😕😕
this story is so confusing 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 (im gonna end it) (im actually not)
nevermind guys
i read it again and locked in
Bulok canvas
The most boring horror story I've ever read
I hate this story so much...
lol
wasn’t she black?
The text suggests he was homosexual? Rubbish! The text says nothing of the sort. Those who insist that Homer Barron is gay hang their entire case upon the narrator's claim that Homer "likes men" and that he is not "a marrying man." These throw away phrases are used to paint Homer as a "man's man", a ne'er do well reconteur, who'd rather spend his time drinking & carousing with the boys, than stay at home with a wife & family. If Faulkner wanted a gay Homer in his story, he wouldn't have pussyfooted around it.
the fact it says he likes men means he was gay
@@ProdByKF16 No it doesn't. It means he enjoys the company of men.
@@rhynosouris710 It implies it at a minimum, it says " because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man.", it could mean he was homosexual, or that he would rather be around guys. But even then, why is he hanging out with this lady with no intentions to marry?
@@S3ven4 How is one gay at a minimum? Look, if you are going to create a gay character, what's the one essential plot device you need? The gay paramour, of course! But that character is missing in this story. What is in the story is that Homer & Emily are involved in a scandalous, indiscreet relationship. The whole essence of the story is of a woman who got her revenge on a scalawag who wronged her. Wronged her not by having sex with some other man who does not appear in the story, but by using her & tossing her aside. That's what makes this story the definative example of Southern Gothic. You ask why he is hanging around with a woman he has no intention of marrying? With respect, I suggest you're a bit naive on the nature of men.
There seems to be a cult following which is desperate to find "hidden" gay men in earlier literature. But this story doesn't lend itself very well to that quest.
@@rhynosouris710 so every straight character has to have a straight relationship or their sexuality is in question despite every other characteristic of their life suggesting it