Two Different Worlds
What people on the outside of a situation perceive and what truly goes on behind closed doors can be two completely different worlds. Public and private lives no matter how interesting or enviable have some kind of flaw. The prefect atomic family does not truly exist. Ones psychic can be irrevocably altered because of this one flaw. I William Faulkner's, A Rose for Emily, He uses an odd chronological order to show there is always a dark cloud in a perfect would. Faulkner also shows through vivid imagery and symbolism that Emily is a prisoner of two worlds, the public and private life. This shows how poor Emily is never able to cope fully with either one because she was never shown how.
Emily was looked upon in public throughout the novel in many ways. She was once the bell of the ball. Through out time she slowly faded just like the house she had lived in her whole life. When she was alive "Miss. Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a careĀ
". Which......
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