Comparing William Faulkners Short Stories, A Rose for Emily and Dry Se

Comparing William Faulkners Short Stories, A uprise for Emily and dry SeptemberThree key elements link William Faulkners two short stories A ruddiness for Emily and Dry September sex, death, and women (King 203). Staging his two stories against a scope of stereotypical characters and a southern code of honor, Faulkner deliberately withholds important details, fragments chronological times, and fuses the past with the present to imply the characters act and motivation. The characters in Faulkners southern parliamentary law are drawn from three social levels the aristocrats, the townspeople, and the Negroes (Volpe 15). In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner describes Miss Emily Grierson in flowing, descriptive sentences. Once a slender ikon in white, the last descendent of a formerly affluent puritanical family matures into a small, fat woman in black, with a thin golden chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony bawl out with a tarnished gold head (F aulkner, Literature 25-27). Despite her diminished financial status, Miss Emily exhibits her aristocratic demeanor by carrying her head high as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson (28). In an equally descriptive manner, Faulkner paints a written portrait of Miss Minnie barrel maker in Dry September. He portrays her as a spinster of leisurely people - not the best in Jefferson, but good affluent people and still on the slender side of ordinary looking, with a bright faintly haggard manner and dress (Faulkner, Reader 520). Cleanth digest sheds considerable insight on Faulkners view of women. He notes that Faulkners women are the offset and sustainer of virtue and also a prime source of evil. She dissolve be ... ...uth. Works Cited Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner Visions of Good and Evil. Faulkner, newfound Perspectives. Ed. Richard H. Brodhead. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Prentice-Hall, 1983. ---. modern font Critical Views. Ne w York Chelsea House,1986. Faulkner, William. Dry September. The Faulkner Reader. New York Random House, 1954. ---. A Rose for Emily. Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 5th ed. New York Harper Collins, 1991. ---. Selected Letters of William Faulkner. Ed. Joseph Blotner. New York Random House, 1977. Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life. Boston Little Brown Company, 1973. King, Richard H. mod Critical Views. New York Chelsea House, 1986. Reed, Joseph. Modern Critical Views. New York Chelsea House, 1986. Volpe, Edmond. A Readers guidebook to William Faulkner. New York Octagon, 1974.