Faulkner art of story telling in a rose for emily

Author’s Background William Faulkner who received the Noble Prize for Literature in 1950 is universally acclaimed as one of the finest writers to have ever held the pen and put down works of fiction on paper. Using various literary devices such as symbolism, storytelling, stream of consciousness, the omniscient and limited points of view he is able to retell some gothic stories in moving ways that have been of great impact for ages across the whole world of literature. At the speech given as he received the Prize he said "…the young man or women writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat," Faulkner in Daniel et al (1997: 723).

Having never had a knack for school and formal education Faulkner was involved in a number of strange occupations as he dropped out of school twice just to ensure he could get a living(Anderson, 2007, p. He struggled in the UK and being a war veteran managed to get some odd jobs in the United States before starting of his writing career. There is still a number of characters who have not been looked into in any manner and most of the work is still left fallow. Both the use of various style and the various comparisons between the two stories is not yet done as many opt to concentrate on the author or his characters and the themes portrayed. Much of the research done by people like author compares the themes as were used to comment on the Eco-social status of the whole of society during Faulkner’s time and what was the general effect of his writings.

In the basing of the writings in his native culture and more, Faulkner noticed that this was simply a microcosm of all that was happening across the world even as he sought for means and ways to comment on the human situation as a whole. The studies have delved deep and are quite exhaustive I the area. All of these are targeted at speaking of the moroseness of the whole situation (Fargnoli & Golay, 2009, p. Characters in a Rose for Emily On the side much of the happenings in the earlier times are all narrated in the following sections of the whole story. Of particular interest is the story of Homer, which is shown in a non-sequential manner with the story, being arbitrary and irregular.

As Homer is introduced into the narratives in steady manner, their relation is laid out in stark contrast. While one is from the North and the other from the South, their cultures would have never been very different. A Synopsis of Barn Burning Barn Burning on the other hand begin when the main character Abner and the family are sent from their own town by the local justice who speculates that they burned down the barn belonging to Mr Harris. The motive was vengeance (Faulkner, 1979, p. The family then moves into a different down and thus makes it look like they had let go of the matter but Abner still seeks for vengeance. Struggling with influence over the son, he tries to lure him into lying for him as they work in a joint plot of vengeance against Major de Spain.

The son ultimately decided to grass on the father and then runs away from home. However, this does not last for long as he ultimately gives up and decides to tell on his father and warn Major de Spain on his plans and evil intentions to burn down his barn (Faulkner, 1979, p. There is also the great need four a sense of peace, safety and concord that Sartoris is constantly seeking. Having lived in Abner’s home all of his life, that entire he has felt is rivalries, hostilities and struggles in the clamor that characterised his own home. As he develops some varied ideas of what is right and wrong and what is acceptable or not, he starts seeking for tranquillity, bliss and joyfulness which he hopes to get away from home.

Having made the final decision to leave home, he never really settles down but still struggles, as he does not get what he had expected. This was not to indicate that they were unable to produce pieces of art, but that they had a difficult connection with art and its production. Written during the great recession in 1929 A Rose for Emily is a great commentary for the postbellum culture in the South. The whole nation of the United States was headed towards a state of complete rot and destruction socially, fiscally, ethically and politically. The values and the ideals that the whole nations of the west had stood for were all brought into question, as it clearly seemed that they had all failed in upholding and maintaining the systems that they had set up to maintain the rule of government (Gale, n.

d, p. Thus being a Southern writer during the difficult times of transition and transformation, Faulkner was able to compellingly, albeit feasibly through much pain, express the whole world in his work of art. Anderson writing of Faulkner’s own family reveals that his grandfather J. T. Faulkner was a very wealthy man who enjoyed the fruits of various economic policies that were being brought to the front by various organisations at his time. He was a great public leader, was in politics for around 20 years, and was involved in a number of public projects. While the young man finds ways to run from his fateful legacy, the reader cannot tell of his ultimate end. Emily on the other hand only finds her escape through death.