“A Rose For Emily” by Willam Failkner Essay

In the story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the use of portend is used truly conspicuously. To foreshadow is to provide advanced indications to a future event or discovery.. The extremely strong dank wind up about Ms. Emilys suffer, the second floor of this residence being locked and the discovery of the iron grey hair, all are strong foreshadowing incidents that achieve this surprising and strong only if also believable ending. Faulkner use of foreshadowing is used ingeniously to achieve a shocking and powerful thus far certain endingMs. Emily lived in a white, square, seventies style house that is now rundown, un maintained, rotting and decaying. The inside of the house was said to flavour like dust and disuse a close, dank smell. to that extent the scent smelt by 3 different neighbors was stronger than this, the stench was so rotten that it traveled into neighboring homes. As one neighbor complained and described the smell she said they were non surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons. Faulkner was trying to develop a scent so strong that it could only be that of a dead tree trunk. As Ms. Emilys husband, Homer Barron had gone unseen ever since they were married, it foreshadows to the discovery of his dead be in the house. The foreshadowing helps to bring certainty and believability to the ending of this story.Ms. Emily was occasionally seen through windows in her home sometimes on the second floor and sometimes on the main floor. As Ms. Emily grew old she started only to be seen on the main floor of her house, not ever on the second. People who would watch the house said she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house Faulkner wanted to make the reader wonder why the second floor was locked and not used. What could Ms. Emily be trying to hide? This is a development in the foreshadowing of the scent in the house, as this foreshadows the discovery of Home r Barrons dead body locked away, upstairs in Ms. Emilys house. Again this foreshadowing strengthens the certainty and believability to the ending of this story.As Ms. Emily grew old, her hair turned gray. Her hair was described as pepper-and-salt-iron-gray. The eventual(prenominal) death of Ms. Emily would end themystery of her life that all of the society had once wondered about. After her funeral and her burial, the towns people broke down the locked upstairs door. undercoat was the deceased and decaying body of Homer Barron, but more closely on the pillow beside where his body laid, an indentation of a head and some strands of hair. The hair was shockingly described as a long strand of iron-gray hair. All of Faulkners foreshadowing lead to this point, where the story came together. This hair foreshadows the untold part of the story, where Ms. Emily had unbroken Homer Barrons body after he had died and had been sleeping with the body. This foreshadowing is extremely strong and s erious as it is un-realistic in our normal society.Through the encouraging foreshadowing events that lead to a strong and serious example, one spate see how the use of foreshadowing brings about a cunning and serious yet a truthful ending. The use of foreshadowing can have a strong impact on storys and novels it can change predictions, alter thoughts on characters and could leave an impression on the reader. In todays normal society this discovery in the story would in the main be seen as a weariness, but to the macabre society this story may have been interpreted differently and would possibly appear normal to them.