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

Comparing William Faulkners Short Stories, A move for Emily and Dry kinfolkThree key elements link William Faulkners two short stories A Rose for Emily and Dry September sex, death, and women (King 203). Staging his two stories against a backdrop of sterile characters and a southern code of honor, Faulkner deliberately withholds important details, fragments chronological times, and fuses the preceding(a) with the present to imply the characters act and motivation. The characters in Faulkners southern society argon drawn from three social levels the aristocrats, the towns wad, and the Negroes (Volpe 15). In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner describes command Emily Grierson in flowing, descriptive sentences. Once a slender figure in white, the last descendent of a formerly affluent aristocratic family matures into a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold reach descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head (Faulkner, lit 25- 27). Despite her diminished financial status, shake off Emily exhibits her aristocratic demeanor by carrying her head high as if she demanded more(prenominal) than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson (28). In an as descriptive manner, Faulkner paints a written portrait of Miss Minnie Cooper in Dry September. He portrays her as a spinster of comfortable batch - not the best in Jefferson, but good enough people and still on the slender side of ordinary looking, with a iridescent faintly haggard manner and dress (Faulkner, Reader 520). Cleanth Brooks sheds capacious insight on Faulkners view of women. He notes that Faulkners women are the source and sustainer of virtue and also a prime source of evil. She can be ... ...uth. Works Cited Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner Visions of Good and Evil. Faulkner, new-sprung(prenominal) Perspectives. Ed. Richard H. Brodhead. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Prentice-Hall, 1983. ---. Modern faultfinding Views. New York Chelsea House,1986. Faulkner, William. Dry September. The Faulkner Reader. New York stochastic 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. Modern critical Views. New York Chelsea House, 1986. Reed, Joseph. Modern Critical Views. New York Chelsea House, 1986. Volpe, Edmond. A Readers Guide to William Faulkner. New York Octagon, 1974.