AP Lit & Comp Sept. 25 2011 A Rose for Emily 4.

) By beginning with the end Faulkner piques the readers interest in that the reader is left to wonder what befell Ms. Emily. The constant change in time periods exemplifies Faulkner's desire to intertwine the past and the present and the influence each had on each other. Faulkner built suspense especially through the one room which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced through his shift in time periods and in the very first paragraph. The deep desire can also be seen in the characters when they violently broke down the door. 6.) The exposition quickly portrays Ms. Emily Grierson as a mysterious person, with a mysterious death, and how such normal young girl could become an old recluse who lived in a house no one had seen in at least 10 years. This foundation creates the inner conflict between herself, and partially the world around her. Being southern, readers stereotype her as a strange, strong-headed, eccentric person. 7.) The main antagonist to protagonist Emily Grierson is actually herself. Her inner darkness, most notably her desire for control became the reason she did not give up her deceased father immediately, all of which leads ultimately to her poisoning of Homer and her necrophilia. Of course, the townspeople did not try to assist her in any way, rather they spread rumors and gossiped about how she will kill herself. 8.) The rose represents story itself. The story was a final respect to Emily. Given what she's endured, she had no life at all. What she did was to the best of her ability. Her desire for control, going as far as to poisoning her love was the best she could be. The narrator uses we to show that the beliefs were not just his own, but all of the townspeople; individual thoughts became notions accepted by everyone.