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Pretend that you are writing an essay on how the frontier…
Pretend that you are writing an essay on how the frontier experience shaped the development of the UnitedStates. While researching, you come acrossthe following passage written by the historian Frederick Jackson Turner:
At first reading, the gothic horror of the tale will likely rule out a heart-lifting experience. But in the end, this story can be seen as the quintessence of Faulkner’s art, and failure to grasp the heroic nature of Emily Grierson will probably portend an inability to understand Faulkner’s oeuvre at large. What connects Faulkner’s Nobel sentiments with his necrophiliac murderess is the existentialist concept that every life contains some possibility of genuine free choice, despite the psychological determinism that severely limits the area of free will in many cases. It is only within that area of freedom, however small, that the dignity and meaning of anyone’s life can be predicated.
With his customary economy of style, Faulkner indicates Emily’s huge burden of psychological determinism in a visual image”a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip.” By driving away her suitors so as to keep her housekeeping services for himself, Emily’s father has ruined her chances for a normal life and thereby grossly deformed her personality. But crazed as she is, after her father dies Emily attains a tiny area of genuine free choiceher chance to find and hold Homer Barron as lover and husbandand it is solely within this area that Emily can be judged. Faulkner’s overall design leads our judgment to work greatly in Emily’s favor, highlighting the virtues of courage, honor, and endurance in her life story.
The narrative design of “A Rose for Emily” is typical of much Faulknerian fiction: we begin in time present, as it were, with the death of Emily; then we move far back into the past to examine several character-revealing episodes; and finally, we return to time present, having gained deeper insight into the opening scene.
Strandberg, Victor. “A Rose for Emily: Overview.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction, edited by Noelle Watson, St. James Press, 1994. Gale Literature Resource Center,
You decide to includea paraphrase or summary of the entirepassage in your essay. Remember that a paraphrase records all the important details of a passage, and a summary condenses a passage to the main ideas.
In your own words, the best paraphrase youcan of Turner’s passage. citation for your paraphrase.
In your own words, the best summary youcan of Turner’s passage. citation for your summary.
summary or paraphrase to include a quotation from Turner’s passage. Remember to still cite at the end of your mixed quote-paraphrase or mixed quote-summary.
