Annotated Bibliography Example: A Rose for Emily

Akers, Donald. "Overview of A Rose for Emily.'" Short Stories for Students 6 (1999): 256-260.

In Donald Akers's "A Rose for Emily" article, several connecting ideas exist between the story and William Faulkner's. In this article, according to Akers's perspective, the story includes in it several events like the death of Emily's father, Emily separation from the rest of the world having herself at home every day, and the killing of Emily's lover is a suggestion that Faulkner was on the dark side of the story. According to the author's observation, Faulkner enjoyed writing suspenseful stories with other types of darkness and horror included such as sex and death and ghost related narratives, or simply a category of uncharacteristic physiological confusion added to a disposition. The article ends by making observations that there are several different interpretations to the connection between the story and the author William Faulkner.

Argiro, Thomas Robert. "Miss Emily after dark." The Mississippi Quarterly64.3/4 (2011): 445.

The main aim of the author is to shade light on the convincible motives for the offenses she has made, the meaning of her relationship with Homer Barron, Tobe, her worker and the father. The author begins by looking deep into Emily's relationship with her father in comparison to her relationship with Homer, showing that she is in anticipation of a prohibited desire for her dad on Homer, especially when he is a corpse supposed to be her dead suppressive dad. The author additionally looks into the representation of race in Homer's background, being showed as a man with dark skin and with eye's equally lighter than the skin, attempting to show that Homer was of multi-cultural origin. In addition to other insightful sources, this article uses numerous articles including scenes where Emily and Tobe talk about Homer's dead body.

Dilworth, Thomas. "A romance to kill for homicidal complicity in Faulkner's" A Rose for Emily." Studies in Short Fiction 36.3 (1999): 251.

The author observes as he believed that the towns people were well informed of Homer's killing and were aware that Emily was responsible for the murder but no investigations were initiated. The writer considers every person in the town an accomplice to the murder case. Furthermore, Dilworth elaborates on the metaphor a rose for Emily through showing that the rose is the relationship of love that the towns people have for Emily.

Getty, L. J. (2005). Faulkner's a Rose for Emily. The Explicator, 63(4), 230-234.

In this article, Getty provides clarification to the title connotation, the literary representation of the rose within the story, and the reaction of the progression of the story and its meaning. The rose according to her, is a representation of a flower tucked between pages and pointing to the manner in which Homer has tucked away in the room. Since the rose petals structure roses, the story is created in chronological order, showing bits and pieces of information for the reader. Furthermore, the writer shows sons literary representation in A Rose for Emily through elaborating the fact that some of the towns people assumed the murder of Homer by Emily since they smelled a decaying body coming from the house. This article assists with the understanding of the literary representation employed in the story.

Kurtz, Elizabeth Carney. "Faulkner's A Rose for Emily." Explicator 44.2 (1986): 40.

Elizabeth Carney offers a description of the meaning of the title "A Rose for Emily" in offering light on the significance of what rose meant to a young woman in the South in the late 1800s. She illustrates that roses are offered as love tokens and that this practice is a symbol of romanticism in the Southern tradition. Therefore, indicating that Emily would have been part of the rituals. The author observes that a rose is a proof that love once flourished, and looking at a rose is a form of reminiscing memories. Such as Homer Barron is considered a token for Emily, as she places him away in a colored rose garden which can be temporarily removed from her isolation. How rose is depicted in this article will offer a further explanation of Emily's feelings and symbolism.

Nebeker, Helen E. "Emily's Rose of Love: Thematic Implications of Point of View in Faulkner's" A Rose for Emily." Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 24.1 (1970): 3-13.

The purpose of this article is to uncover who the narrator truly is. The main question is if the narrator is a woman or a man. It shows the way that through the whole story, the narrator proceeds from a third person to the first person constantly using words like they, and we in portraying the time and setting of the spot. Before, all these, the author attempts to provide clarification for how great most people could have trust in the fact that the storyteller could perhaps be a present of Jefferson. However, in the expressions of commentator summing it up, it would be a townsman, who has talent in storytelling, impenitently moving his character as he travels through the story. The central point of the story revolves around the parts when she proceeds on how the storyteller shifts from one person to the other.

Wallace, James M. "Faulkner's a Rose for Emily." The Explicator 50.2 (1992): 105-107.

In his view, Wallace observes that the narrator has intonations of trapping the readers through making an implication that Homer was gay. In this article, there are gossips that show a how a person fails to understand them truly. Wallace confirms that it is not important if Homer was gay or not, but what is of significance is the narrator's comments. The narrator can nail the reader as soon as the reader agrees to the murder of Homer by Emily for Homer's sexual status.

Works Cited

Akers, Donald. "Overview of A Rose for Emily.'" Short Stories for Students 6 (1999): 256-260.

Argiro, Thomas Robert. "Miss Emily after dark." The Mississippi Quarterly64.3/4 (2011): 445.

Dilworth, Thomas. "A romance to kill for homicidal complicity in Faulkner's" A Rose for Emily." Studies in Short Fiction 36.3 (1999): 251.

Getty, L. J. (2005). Faulkner's a Rose for Emily. The Explicator, 63(4), 230-234.

Kurtz, Elizabeth Carney. "Faulkner's A Rose for Emily." Explicator 44.2 (1986): 40.

Nebeker, Helen E. "Emily's Rose of Love: Thematic Implications of Point of View in Faulkner's" A Rose for Emily." Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 24.1 (1970): 3-13.

Wallace, James M. "Faulkner's a Rose for Emily." The Explicator 50.2 (1992): 105-107.