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A Rose For Emily Rhetorical Analysis
Jose Gomez
Professor Martinez
ENC1102
21 January 2018
Response to “A Rose For Emily”
In Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” points out that unlike todays life style where people can go out and find potential suitors, women were expected to get married young and take care of the household. Unlike the women in the story, women can go to college and find successful jobs. They can support themselves, while being single, without the expectations of a man to take care of them. Back then women did not have these types of choice, their father would find a suitor for them.
To me when Emily was a young girl she had so many suitors that her father had to scared them away which kept her from meeting potential suitors and getting married “…all the young men
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When her father died, she did not want to give up his body until the law almost had to come in and take the body. “… trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body just as they were about to resort law and force, she broke down” (Faulkner 241). I found that she had trouble acknowledging that she was alone. She did not have anyone around to support her or help her throughout this difficult time. “… She had some kin in Alabama; but years ago, her father had fallen out with them over the estate of old lady Wyatt” (Faulkner). This made me think of the time my friend told me that he had nowhere to go. He found out his parents were getting a divorce. His world was falling apart and felt all alone. His parents were separating, and he did not understand the reasons for it. He struggled over the years with his father losing house after house and could not keep friends for long enough before he had to move. He felt that he was out of place and did not have anyone to go to except me and his older brother. It took him time to tell me his past and how he grew up with a hard life ever since his parents separated. He thought he was facing the world alone without no one supporting him that he had to keep going. But one day he noticed everyone around him had been pushing him

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