A Rose for Emily (The Harcourt Casebook Series in Literature) (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature)

By Stephen R. Mandell and Laurie G. Kirszner

Book Overview

Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0155074717
• ISBN13: 9780155074712
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Read it. Everyone else has.

This is one of those books that are forced on you at school. The basic story is of a Southern belle driven mad by isolation and her ties to the past. If this is your first reading of something representative of Faulkner, this is the best example, as it is short and the story is intriguing. You can enjoy reading it for what it is and not have to a-n-a-l-y-z-e the thing to death. Even if you do not particularly cotton to Faulkner's style or subject matter, this book will transcend both. In 1982, they made this story into a movie with John Houseman and Anjelica Huston.

a rose for emily

this book is about a very good short story on the changes of the south during a very representative period!

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This is definitely a quick but good read. If I begin to go into detail, it will ruin it for you; however, it is about one Miss Emily Grierson, who is from a respectable family of which she is the sole remaining descendent. She remains shrouded in a cloud of private mystery with only the occasional entry or departure of her black servant to provide her with the basic necessites from the outside world. After a small accumulation of seemingly unconnected incidents, the story ends on a horrifying and ghastly note, which manages to leave the reader confident that he knows what the ending means, but at the same time is left hanging uncertainly. I would also like to strongly recommend _The Sound and the Fury_ to anyone who has enjoyed this or any of Faulkner's works.