Questions

What details in “A Rose for Emily”  make it a “Gothic” sytled story?

How does gender affect the roles of the characters in “Hills like White Elephants” and “The Story of the Hour”?

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“A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner

“A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner is about an elder women named Emily who life is spent at home isolated from the world.  Her life was controlled by her father whom felt that men where never good enough for her leading her to adapt a reclusive personality.  Her personality pushes those who want to become closer with her away. Although Emily does soon find love he leaves her after sometime. The act of the man’s betrayal left her to find confront in one but herself.

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Questions

In “Hills Like White Elephants” why are we to asume that the topic of interest was “abortion”?

In “A Rose For Emily” what were the emotional scars left due to her fathers death?

In “Story of an Hour” at the end of the story why was it the doctors said that Ms. Mallard died of  heart disease of “joy that kills”?

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Questions

1. How are the female characters portrayed in all the stories? 

2. How do the stories differ by those written by a female author? A male author?

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A Rose For Emily

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a story about Emily Grierson, a lady who comes from a well respected, wealthy and proud family.  Emily is a woman who’s life was controlled and manipulated by her father who she had highly odd relationships with.  Emily is a woman who lives in the past and is unwilling to adapt to the changes that occurr throughout her life.  When Emily’s father had died , she became insane and couldn’t deal with letting go of her past.  Because of the name Emily carries, she believes that she is above the law (ex.doesn’t pay her taxes),  she believes she is better than and above all the townspeople.  She isolates herself from everyone in town where the townspeople all have different views of Emily.  Some envy her for the glammar she once had, some are jealous and others feel sorry for her because she lost everything she had and has no one.  As lonely as Emily has become over the years she continued with her irrational and stubborn ways of life.

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Questions

Prof .Rosen 2/22/09
Eng. 1121-5422 Rodney Harris

Questions:

• In the reading A Rose for Emily, how is Emily’s relationship with Homer Barron viewed by the women in the town?

• What key words or phases suggest that the topic of interest was abortion in Hills Like White Elephants?

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Name:  Kenneth Williams

 

Subject:  English 1121/5422

 

Prof:  Jody Rosen

 

Date:  February 18, 2009

 

Assignment #1

 

TRIFLES

 

            The indifference between men and women are that men undermine the ability of a women’s potential. The equality of a man’s rights compared to women’s rights is often comprised. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are perfect examples of early 20^th century women whom are housewives living in a time period where women’s rights were ignored. The mysterious death of Mrs. Hale’s neighbor John Wright brings forth the harsh reality and treatment of women in the play “Trifles.” This is because of the behaviors of these men; Mr. Hale, Mr. Henderson, the County Attorney, Mr. Peters, and the Sheriff. This lead to the women finding evidence that linked a motive which caused the death of Mr. Wright. The men overlooked the women’s findings after they had asked them for their assistance. However they found a “broken birdcage,” which was significant to Mrs. Wright as her happiness and youth prior to her marriage. Seeing the birdcage broken triggered the previous conversations the ladies had together about the reminisce Mrs. Wright.

            The “broken birdcage,” symbolizes how the birds want to be set “free” and fly away singing as Mrs. Wright once did as “Minnie Foster.” The kitchen was where Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters had authority over there men but, the men criticized them over worrying about trivial things for example the “broken birdcage”, the “dead bird.” and “beautiful silk ”  Instead Mr. Wrights death and his wife as the only suspect. The County Attorney, Mr. Henderson said “keep an eye out for anything that might be of use to us.” But this made Mrs. Hale upset “I’d hate to have men come into my kitchen and criticizing.”  This emphasizes the manner in which men down plays the women’s ability to helped solve the reason behind the murder they founded the broken birdcage which enlighten the reason behind his death but the men neglected it and persuade on with their own theory. 

     Mrs. Hale never seemed fond of Mr. Wright because Mrs. Wright was a cheerful lady who entertains people before she met Mr. Wright she said “she use to sing” and “he killed that too.” This demonstrates that Mrs. Wright was like the bird in her past but in the cage, while Mr. Wright was the cage that kept her in shackles with there marriage and  “queer” life as a arrogant farmer.  The bird was a joy Mrs. Wright once had but Mr. Wright took it away from her.  Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters felt her hardship and desire to be “free”.  The men in the house neglected the kitchen as a primary place where the scene of the crime started because they saw it as “trifles” and insignificant to the women seen the “broken birdcage” as being important. This turns out that all the evidence the women founded was in fact in their only domain in the house the kitchen.  

         The indifference between men and women are that men undermine the ability of a women’s potential. The equality of a man’s rights compared to women’s rights is often comprised in the play “trifles” the women founded the clue to the death of Mr. Wright but yet still the men disregarded and failed to acknowledge with they had founded.  The men turned out to make the mystery behind Mr. Wright’s death unsolved and because of their ignorance, so the evidence was lost within “trifled” minds of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters whom turned out to do the role of the men in finding a motive for the murder.  Both characters wanted to be acknowledged and be of much use to the men having more respect as them, besides been housewives with no sense of authority than in the kitchen.   

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“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

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The Story of an Hour

In this passage by Kate Chopin, it is mainly about over coming the unexpected and being “Free”.  Although her husband’s death was tragic as any others, Mrs. Mallard was never free until her husband’s death because she wasn’t happy when he lived.  Although her husband’s death enabled her to overcome her fear of death and enable her to let herself free.  Suffering like she has from her illness (heart problems), she no longer fears to die, she no longer suffers.  For example, “When she abandoned herself little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips, she said it over and over under her breath “Free, Free, Free”.  She was free from pain, from suffering and from her husband.  Then when her husband walked through the door, the family thought it was the shock of him being alive that killed Mrs. Mallard, but really joy that kills.

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Hills Like White Elephants

In the story Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway the story is mainly about a male and female couple in Spain waiting for their train on an extremely hot day.  The couple sit and have a couple of beers as they wait for the train.  The female stares out the window and sees nothing but clouds filled with mountains and hills that she compares to the look of white elephants.  The couple continues discussing simple things like their surroundings, the weather and drinking.  The discussion then takes a more serious tone.  The couple starts discussing an operation that the female is considering having.  The male is reassuring the female about the safety of the operation while she is more concerned about how her decision will affect the relationship.  They continue to weigh their options about how “their decision” will affect her, him and their relationship.  After the male tries to reassure the female that the operation is the”best” choice, but he doesn’t want her to do anything she doesn’t want to.  She asks him to stop the conversation repeatedly.  They get a little space from one another while he gets their bags and waits for the train.  When he returns she says “she’s fine”.

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