In what ways, if any, can you compare "A Rose for Emily" to "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman"? What similar themes run through this story? What are some significant differences? Respond to the question and then Reply to two classmates.
First, I recognized that this story don’t insist of flow of the time when I read twice this short story. It makes readers more thoughtful and difficult to understand. These three short story’s similar themes are women’s feeling isolated. They feel isolation and no free for one of the human. They can’t have a conversation with others so that one part of their hearts becomes decay, and nobody notices this fact. However, there is a significant difference. The main characters of The Story of an Hour and A Sorrowful Woman are suffered from their husband, but the main character of A Rose for Emily is suffered from her father and others. Her father control her childhood and twenties, and others interfere her life by talking behind her back and looking at. I think this whole life’s suffering makes her more weird. The formal, two women kill herself, but the latter, she kills others to give love and receives love.
The story of an hour and a sorrowful woman are both similar in terms of a woman suffering from life and outside pressure. In both stories, the women find it difficult to deal with their problems and they can't change anything to make them happy, so, they suffer. However, the story of "a rose of Emily" talks about a woman who seems to do whatever that makes her happy. For instance, in this story, the woman keeps her father's dead body in a room so that she can look at his dad because she loves him. Although he didn't allow her to date boys, she loved his dad. Also, after his father's dead, she meets a boy called Homer, and falls in love with him. However, when she knows that he is leaving the town, she kills him just because she doesn't want to lose him. These are the examples that show how the woman act to turn things into what she wants. To compare all those three stories, we find out that symbolism is focused on more in (A rose for Emily), although main character dies in all those stories.
Yes, I also think that Emily kills her boyfriend because she doesn't want to lose him. However, I'm afraid I don't agree with you in the point of she loves her father because he is the reason of her frustration. I think that she keeps her father's death body in order to avoid the passage of time because she tries to hold on to old privileges and concepts of life. She doesn't want to assume that her life will change.
But at the same time she loves her father. She wants to live a life based on his father's exceptions. If she hadn't loved her father, she would have never kept his body in the room. The same thing goes to Homer. She loves Homer, but when Homer wants to leave, she kills him and keeps his dead body in her house. It shows that whoever she loves, she wants to be with her. No matter if they are alive or not!
I think that these three stories have the same theme in common. The three women in these stories are under oppression, sometimes their husband's oppression, sometimes under their father's oppression, and always under social pressure. However, I perceive a clear difference, in "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" we can see women trapped in their unhappy marriages trying to escape from the role of housewife, but the situation in "A Rose for Emily" is exactly the opposite. Emily is deprived of her ideal life. She would like to be a housewife, but her father wanted her to take care of him instead to create a family. As a result of this frustration, she tries to hold on to love at any cost. In addition, I also think that the three women could seem evil or crazy in some way because the writer doesn't expose them like "angels." They are not evidently good or bad, they are real women. Nothing is obvious in these stories, and this is part of the charm in them.
“The Story of an Hour”, “A Sorrowful Woman and “A Rose for Emily” are the three stories about lives of three different women; all of whom are with strict men in their lives. The above mentioned three stories have similar theme although each of them is about a different character/woman. Women in “The Story of an Hour” and “A Sorrowful Woman” are married, and the other one in “A Rose of Emily” wishes to be married. All the three stories end in death of the main characters/women. Woman in A Rose of Emily is looking for love and women in The Story of an Hour and A Sorrowful Woman live with so much hate and unhappiness that killed them.
The difference of “A Rose for Emily” from other two stories I found at first is the use of “we.” In "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" the speakers just describe what the characters do and what happens without no opinions of the speakers about the women. On the other hand in “A Rose for Emily”, the speaker often uses “we”, so the story is told from the view point of the citizens in her town. The speaker also expresses what he thinks, for example, “We believed she had to do that” and “we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated.” Because the speaker of “A rose for Emily” use “we”, I feel as if I am watching at her as one of her neighbors while I read the story.
To begin with, “A Rose for Emily” is concerned with a women problems after her father death. From my understanding, the speakers are group of women from her neighborhood. Those women try to step in her life and offer help , but Emily reject them.This story has the same sadness and depression that "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" have ; in addition, the women feelings show through their actions. Also, These two stories share a similar theme with “A Rose for Emily” of women dealing with their miserable life. We can differentiate “A Rose for Emily” that it give the reader a difficult time to understand. This story shows that Emily is the victim when the other women talk about her, but she is actually not. It gives me a bizarre and unknown feeling of what is the women’s intentions behind her actions.
First of all, " A Rose for Emily" is about oppression for women to express it through Emily. However, a big diffrence that this story has from "A sorrowful woman" and "The story of an hour" is that she doesn't hate men. She would rather care about men specifically her father even though he doesn't permit her to date any men. The second is, well, that Emily has a similar situation to "The story of hour" Both of them got connected however they are not happy. well, we can discover differences between two stories; that is, Loise in "The story of an hour" are happy to hear that her husband died. It means she doesn't like her husband. However, Emily is always sad because she feel uncomfortable if her boyfriend leave from her. The third difference is about " A Sorrowful Woman." A woman in "A Sorrowful Woman" always depressed even though she has a good husband. She always tries to attract her husband's interests but failed. On the other hand, Miss Emily is aggressive. she miscarry her husband freely to be handled by herself she just kill him.
For those reasons, I think she is more aggressive than the other main characters.
In my perspective, the similar of this three story is marriage. In "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" the women were dissatisfied their marriage. However, in "A Rose for Emily" Emily want to marry because at that time people conception was if women want to a beautiful life, she should marry. When Emily found out the man that she might marry want to live, she kill him and keep his remain on the room. They were calling her, “poor Emily” until they know that she will marry him, they felt happy for her. At the end I think all the three story talk about the culture at that time.
First of all, the main character of three stories are women. Then they are all have troubles with their life. The difference between "A Sorrowful Women" and "A Rose for Emily" is they have different troubles even though the pain are both coming from their family. the woman in "A Rose for Emily" suffered from her thoughts because I think she wanted to dominant her family but she can't. her father controlled basically everything of her so that she killed her father then. the woman in " A Sorrowful Woman" also suffered from her husband but in different ways. she couldn't find appropriate position in her family and her husband do not understand her at all. In addition both of them committee suicide at the end of story
First, I recognized that this story don’t insist of flow of the time when I read twice this short story. It makes readers more thoughtful and difficult to understand. These three short story’s similar themes are women’s feeling isolated. They feel isolation and no free for one of the human. They can’t have a conversation with others so that one part of their hearts becomes decay, and nobody notices this fact. However, there is a significant difference. The main characters of The Story of an Hour and A Sorrowful Woman are suffered from their husband, but the main character of A Rose for Emily is suffered from her father and others. Her father control her childhood and twenties, and others interfere her life by talking behind her back and looking at. I think this whole life’s suffering makes her more weird. The formal, two women kill herself, but the latter, she kills others to give love and receives love.
ReplyDeleteWow! I totally agree with you. You wrote everything that I want to write...
DeleteYes, in the story of A Rose for Emily, the girl's father doesn't allow her to date boys, but i don't think she suffers from that!
DeleteI agree with you.
DeleteI also agree with you!
DeleteThe story of an hour and a sorrowful woman are both similar in terms of a woman suffering from life and outside pressure. In both stories, the women find it difficult to deal with their problems and they can't change anything to make them happy, so, they suffer. However, the story of "a rose of Emily" talks about a woman who seems to do whatever that makes her happy. For instance, in this story, the woman keeps her father's dead body in a room so that she can look at his dad because she loves him. Although he didn't allow her to date boys, she loved his dad. Also, after his father's dead, she meets a boy called Homer, and falls in love with him. However, when she knows that he is leaving the town, she kills him just because she doesn't want to lose him. These are the examples that show how the woman act to turn things into what she wants. To compare all those three stories, we find out that symbolism is focused on more in (A rose for Emily), although main character dies in all those stories.
ReplyDeletedid she kill her father?? oh I have to read again :}
DeleteYes, I also think that Emily kills her boyfriend because she doesn't want to lose him. However, I'm afraid I don't agree with you in the point of she loves her father because he is the reason of her frustration. I think that she keeps her father's death body in order to avoid the passage of time because she tries to hold on to old privileges and concepts of life. She doesn't want to assume that her life will change.
DeleteBut at the same time she loves her father. She wants to live a life based on his father's exceptions. If she hadn't loved her father, she would have never kept his body in the room. The same thing goes to Homer. She loves Homer, but when Homer wants to leave, she kills him and keeps his dead body in her house. It shows that whoever she loves, she wants to be with her. No matter if they are alive or not!
DeleteWow this story makes a huge dilemma.
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ReplyDeleteI think that these three stories have the same theme in common. The three women in these stories are under oppression, sometimes their husband's oppression, sometimes under their father's oppression, and always under social pressure. However, I perceive a clear difference, in "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" we can see women trapped in their unhappy marriages trying to escape from the role of housewife, but the situation in "A Rose for Emily" is exactly the opposite. Emily is deprived of her ideal life. She would like to be a housewife, but her father wanted her to take care of him instead to create a family. As a result of this frustration, she tries to hold on to love at any cost. In addition, I also think that the three women could seem evil or crazy in some way because the writer doesn't expose them like "angels." They are not evidently good or bad, they are real women. Nothing is obvious in these stories, and this is part of the charm in them.
ReplyDeleteYes, Leticia! I am totally agreed with you; the stories have the same theme.
DeleteYes, I agree with you!! ㅎㅎ I can see other things in your opinion. Good
Delete“The Story of an Hour”, “A Sorrowful Woman and “A Rose for Emily” are the three stories about lives of three different women; all of whom are with strict men in their lives. The above mentioned three stories have similar theme although each of them is about a different character/woman. Women in “The Story of an Hour” and “A Sorrowful Woman” are married, and the other one in “A Rose of Emily” wishes to be married. All the three stories end in death of the main characters/women. Woman in A Rose of Emily is looking for love and women in The Story of an Hour and A Sorrowful Woman live with so much hate and unhappiness that killed them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Sarfaraz.
DeleteThe difference of “A Rose for Emily” from other two stories I found at first is the use of “we.” In "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" the speakers just describe what the characters do and what happens without no opinions of the speakers about the women. On the other hand in “A Rose for Emily”, the speaker often uses “we”, so the story is told from the view point of the citizens in her town. The speaker also expresses what he thinks, for example, “We believed she had to do that” and “we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated.” Because the speaker of “A rose for Emily” use “we”, I feel as if I am watching at her as one of her neighbors while I read the story.
ReplyDeleteGood! Your finding is so impressed. It makes me more thoughtful about A Rose for Emily.
DeleteTo begin with, “A Rose for Emily” is concerned with a women problems after her father death. From my understanding, the speakers are group of women from her neighborhood. Those women try to step in her life and offer help , but Emily reject them.This story has the same sadness and depression that "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" have ; in addition, the women feelings show through their actions. Also, These two stories share a similar theme with “A Rose for Emily” of women dealing with their miserable life. We can differentiate “A Rose for Emily” that it give the reader a difficult time to understand. This story shows that Emily is the victim when the other women talk about her, but she is actually not. It gives me a bizarre and unknown feeling of what is the women’s intentions behind her actions.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, " A Rose for Emily" is about oppression for women to express it through Emily. However, a big diffrence that this story has from "A sorrowful woman" and "The story of an hour" is that she doesn't hate men. She would rather care about men specifically her father even though he doesn't permit her to date any men.
ReplyDeleteThe second is, well, that Emily has a similar situation to "The story of hour" Both of them got connected however they are not happy. well, we can discover differences between two stories; that is, Loise in "The story of an hour" are happy to hear that her husband died. It means she doesn't like her husband. However, Emily is always sad because she feel uncomfortable if her boyfriend leave from her.
The third difference is about " A Sorrowful Woman." A woman in "A Sorrowful Woman" always depressed even though she has a good husband. She always tries to attract her husband's interests but failed. On the other hand, Miss Emily is aggressive. she miscarry her husband freely to be handled by herself she just kill him.
For those reasons, I think she is more aggressive than the other main characters.
I don`t understand what you wrote.
ReplyDeleteIn my perspective, the similar of this three story is marriage. In "The Story of an Hour" and "A Sorrowful Woman" the women were dissatisfied their marriage. However, in "A Rose for Emily" Emily want to marry because at that time people conception was if women want to a beautiful life, she should marry. When Emily found out the man that she might marry want to live, she kill him and keep his remain on the room. They were calling her, “poor Emily” until they know that she will marry him, they felt happy for her.
ReplyDeleteAt the end I think all the three story talk about the culture at that time.
First of all, the main character of three stories are women. Then they are all have troubles with their life. The difference between "A Sorrowful Women" and "A Rose for Emily" is they have different troubles even though the pain are both coming from their family. the woman in "A Rose for Emily" suffered from her thoughts because I think she wanted to dominant her family but she can't. her father controlled basically everything of her so that she killed her father then. the woman in " A Sorrowful Woman" also suffered from her husband but in different ways. she couldn't find appropriate position in her family and her husband do not understand her at all. In addition both of them committee suicide at the end of story
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