A Rose for Emily: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Emily's hair changes at important points in the story.

* [[Important Haircut]]: Emily cuts her hair after her [[Overprotective Dad]] dies.

* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The story is comprised of five parts which are mostly out of order. For those who don't pick apart and reassemble the events, whether Emily killed her beau, and why, is an perplexing matter. The fact that the narrator (implied to be the townspeople) has a severely limited understanding of Emily's personal life and occasionally relies on conjecture to guess at her actions doesn't help much either.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: A clergyman is persuaded to call on the reclusive title character. "He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again." Considering that {{spoiler|Emily was harboring the decomposing corpse of a prospective husband}}, this is not surprising.

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: The story paints the image of Emily in the background, and her father at the door with her back to her, bullwhip in hand. It is implied this is why she never got engaged.

* [[Rose-Tinted Narrative]]: Deconstruction of this trope applied to the antebellum southern US.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Tobe, Miss Emily's black servant, escapes from the place the minute after he informs the decease of his employer.