A ROSE FOR EMILY
In a Rose for Emily William Faulkner portrays the discrimination against black linked to dehumanization.
Faulkner writing gains its poignancy from the use of his secondary literary purpose. Faulkner use realistic
imagery of his cover years in his novel entitled “A Rose for Emily”. Where the history of the south it is true based on
his novel. Faulkner tells the acumen against the black people, His use of literary characteristics and instrumental in the
success of his primary expressive purpose in the story of “A Rose for Emily”. His main organizational pattern is the
expressive purpose.
The author employs the literary element of figurative language when he states that the “no negro woman
should appear on the street without an apron”. Use of this form Faulkner tells about the racism. Therefore, he focuses
on the event where in the Kingdom of Yoknapatawpha Country there is a plantation of cotton fields and the slavery
happened. The owners of the plantation are the Native Americans while the laborers are the Americans of sub-Saharan
African ancestry also known as African Americans.
In the novel of the “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the author highlights the racism. He portrays the
slaves as a worker in the south country of Yoknapatawpha to prove that the slavery is on the air by that time. The
racism happened in the story denotes that the number of race-based prejudice, violent, discrimination, or
oppression. In addition, the number of his primary determinant of human traits and capacities and those racial
differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. The wit may be classified into two divisions as Direct
and subtle.
Through direct discrimination, it states that treating someone is less favorable because of their possession of
an attribute like gender, age, body shape, body size, race, and others. Other factors of direct discrimination are family,
status, national origin, disability and others. Because of shrewdness the direct discrimination may occur. A good
example is to not offering a job to a woman because she is likely to take maternity leave where as a man is not.
The indirect or subtle discrimination involves setting a condition or requirement, which a smaller proportion
of those with the attribute are able to comply with, without reasonable justification. This humble example is to
disqualify Negro at a substantially higher rate than white employee does.
Yet the inequity may clear subject to novel. The author delineates the slave as a worker in his novel. He is
aware about the environment in the era of civil war. A Rose for Emily is a good example of revisiting the past by means
of history, culture, and customs. Faulkner uses his novel to make a mirror or tunnel from the past to see the
discrimination and drudge. There are two races in the novel of A Rose for Emily the African American and the Native
American.
The American Indians, sometimes called Native Americans, are descendants of the first people to live in
the Americas. They had been living there for thousands of years before any Europeans arrived. In a rose for Emily, the
characters are usually white Americans. That time the white Americans have a more rights than black Americans. As a
result, the slavery happened. For those white people they pretend as a master or a king. Faulkner relates the bad
attitude of the white example is the slavery from black people.
The African Americans have been referred to as Negroes, colored, blacks, and Afro-Americans, as well as lesserknown terms, such as the 19th-century designation Anglo-African. The terms Negro and colored are now rarely
used. African American, black, and to a lesser extent Afro-American, are used interchangeably today. They are the
ancestry of the former slave in slavery era. The African Americans are lack of civil right than Native Americans. In the
time of slavery, all of them are under the dog by the hand of Native American. Like in the Yoknapatawpha country in
the south plantation, all African Americans are the laborers.
Most African American who is the descendants of captive Africans who survived the slavery era within the
boundaries of the present U.S. southern plantation owners held the black community in enslavement while greedy,
American settlers stole the Indian’s land. After the civil war, however, conditions radically change for both: the slaves
where freed at last and the remaining free tribes were being herded onto reservation.
Positive the dehumanization happened in the story of “A Rose for Emily” It is clearly mentioned in the novel.
The town people judge Homer Baron because he is a Foreman. “Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a
northerner, a day laborer”. They judge Homer Baron by physical “a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes
lighter than his face”. See it occurs the author tells about the dehumanization in the way of mistreatment and being
judge able. Faulkner emphasizes the slaves in the time of civil war. As an instrument he use his novel to inform
everyone that the mistreatment and inhuman conditions of people. Through his novel Faulkner, view the
unconditional events that may occur presently. It may be deprive of human qualities such as individuality, comparison,
or civility.
Through his masterful art novel he use the expressive and literary purpose, Faulkner clearly describe the
percipience and knowledge on the way of he portray the African Americans as a slave and Native Americans as a royal.
He doesn’t tell in his story is in the form of liner fashion, but rather it is sequential order. This technique builds mystery
for the reader as the plot unfolds layer by layer. The reader must act as a detective in order to find what the main
cause is. The reader must find all the piece of puzzle to get the main idea. Mr. Faulkner’s work “A Rose for Emily” is
lack of chronological order. That is why Mr. Faulkner success his masterful novel entitled “A Rose for Emily”. It is a
majestic and it gives a touch to our feelings.