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A Rose for Emily

Paper instructions:
Consider Faulkner’s own words as you think about “A Rose for Emily.” In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Faulkner said, “…the young man or woman writing today

has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and

the sweat” (qtd. in Select Writers 299). How is “A Rose for Miss Emily” a story about the human heart in conflict with itself?

PDF story

http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/A_Rose_for_Emily.pdf