Free Journal: Intro to Paper

The setting of a story has a lot to do with the characters and the plot as well. In the story "A Rose for Emily", the setting of isolation and mystery about the house she lives in portrays her character as well. The specific context from the story gives reason why she choses to seperate herself from the rest of the town, as well as keeping her house as private as possible. The setting of her house that is described in the story as having the smell of "dust and disuse", looking like "an eyesore among eyesores", and "the house filled with dust and shadows". These descriptions of the house are the same as the characteristics of Miss Emily.

The main things that I want to focus on for this essay are the specific details of the slow decaying of the house, the occasion leaving of the house, and later people not seeing Miss Emily for long periods of a time. In this story, it is as if the house serves as a replica for Miss Emily herself, the house that once was "white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our mose select street" and now "only Miss Emily's house was left". This gives evidence that her house has not only began to grow older and more mysterious, plus the last house on the street that was once so lively, gives reasoning why Miss Emily's character is so lonely and mysterious.