a rose for emily(5)

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what they really were. (2.11)

If it hadn't been for lady Wyatt, the town would have found something else to use as evidence against any Grierson claim to nobility. But, sane or not, not one can deny what the Grierson's had. This also gives us one of the few clues to the history of Emily's family.

A Rose for Emily Theme of Visions of America

"A Rose for Emily" doesn't look at America through rose-colored glasses, even though many of its characters do. In the aftermath of slavery, the American South shown in the novel is in bad shape. The novel deals with the stubborn refusal of some southerners to see that the America they believed in – an America based on slavery – was no more. The story covers about 74 years, beginning sometime just before the Civil War. The focus, however, is on the periods from about 1894 to 1935. Because the dates are all jumbled together, we have to work to untangle the stories present vision of America from the vision of the past.

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Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it. (1.3)

This sentence reflects an aspect of the narrator's peculiar bias. The Colonel's trick has been used before and will be used again. When people are desperate, men or women,

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