1. "When Miss Emily Grierson died..."
2. "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care... dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris... remitted her taxes."
3. "The next generation" says she has to pay taxes. "On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came..." The town officials come to see her; she defeats them.
4. "Just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart... had deserted her."
5. "A woman complained... the next day [the mayor] received two more complaints... that night the Board of Aldermen met... the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn... After a week or two the smell went away."
6. "She got to be thirty and was still single... When her father died..."
7. "The day after his death... She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days..."
8. "In the summer after her father's death... the construction company came... with a foreman named Homer Barron..."
9. 'Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons... At first we were glad... And as soon as the old people said, "Poor Emily," the whispering began.'
10. 'Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say "Poor Emily"...'
11. 'So the next day we all said, "She will kill herself"... When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said... Then we said... Later we said... Then some of the ladies began to say... at last the ladies forced the Baptist minister to call upon her... The next Sunday they again drove through the streets, and the following day the minister's wife wrote to Miss Emily's relations..."
12. "At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married. We learned... Two days later we learned... We were not surprised when Homer Barron was gone... After another week [the relations] departed... Within three days Homer Barron was back in town... the Negro man [admitted] him... at dusk one evening."
13. "And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron... Now and then we would see her at a window... for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew... When we next saw Miss Emily... During the next few years... Up to the day of her death at seventy-four..."
14. "From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty... Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted."
15. "Then the new generation became the backbone of the town... When the town got free postal delivery... Daily, monthly, yearly, we watched the Negro grow grayer... Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later... Now and then we would see her in one of the windows... Thus she passed from generation to generation."
16. "And so she died. Fell ill..."
17. "The Negro met the first of the ladies... He walked through the house and out the back and was not seen again... They held the funeral on the second day..."
18. "Already we knew that there was one room... which no one had seen in forty years. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground..."
19. They break down the door. "For a long time we just stood there... Then we noticed..."
I think this way of leading a story is good but very confused. I still dont understant part of story.. Oh.. poor Emily.. poor me..:)
ReplyDeleteI have liked the stories have the current of time like this. But I think......... Faulkner's one is ......little bit hart to understand at once. However, from this story, I could know about the new type of view that explains the PAST.(for elder people)
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting only with the added explanation ....:P
This story is difficult to read.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I don't know some part of the story's order.
But, this way of writing makes me concentrate more on this story.
I like stories which starts like 'A Rose for Emily'. A main character died. And the story goes backward. It makes me exciting. What happend? Why people died? As you know 'dead' is some kind of 'bad results'.
ReplyDeleteAlso this story starts with 'Miss Emily's death', and finishes with 'HB's dead body'. I think that's kind of balance.
When we read this story in our class I couldn't get the time line of the story. But we looked it over again and it was helpful to me. I feel like I'm in the middle of story. I like this kind of stories which has obvious fact that stimulate our interest in the story.
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