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Power and Love in "A Rose for Emily"
One of the most frequently anthologized stories by William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily," is the remarkable story of Emily Grierson, an aging spinster in Jefferson, whose death and funeral draws the attention of the entire town, "the men through sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity." The unnamed narrator, whi ....
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.... is somewhat of a recluse. After her father’s death, she is not seen “for a long time.” Two years later, after her lover Homer Barron disappears, she stays alone inside her house for at least ten years. During this time, her only relationship with another person is with her manservent, or “Negro,” Tobe. This relationship mimics that with her father in that she holds power over him. Faulkner’s reference to Tobe as “the old Negro” rather than by hi ....
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