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Miss Emily is a wealthy but lonely women. She becomes more depressed after her father’s death and hide the body of her death lover. She has problems with the people in town as they were always attendencing and wondering about her. The people who are the neighbours of Emily, are curious and critizing everytime about Emily. Emily loves her father so much that she couldn’t except his death and didn’t want to bury his body. I think she would keep the body in the house like her lover, but not to draw attention of the town, she had to bury it. The narrator in the story is one of the people in town and this makes the story more reliable. The event is not happening in chronological sequence which makes the story more interesting and the reader wonder about what happens at the end of it.
The story takes place in a small town called Jefferson. We can see the close relationship between the people in the town. If the story was set in a big city, the relationship between them would be weaker and the story would lost all its specialty. We can see third person’s point of view in the story. When the narrator talks about the people in the story, he says ‘we’. It can be understood that the narrator also sees the events happening in the story and this makes him more reliable.
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jo
// Oct 18, 2008 at 9:06 am
Just two questions. Are you sure that the narrator is reliable? Look at everything s/he tells you are they all facts, and are they all things that s/he experienced directly? And even if s/he did experience everything s/he tells the reader does that make him/her reliable? What does it mean to be reliable? Can any writer or narrator be completely reliable?
The other question is about the order of events- who died first the father or Emily’s lover?
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extravaganza
// Oct 18, 2008 at 9:54 am
I just looked at the way s/he is telling and it is like s/he experienced everything but of course it doesn’t mean that all the events are experienced. But i said because the narrator is one of the people in town, the story is ‘more reliable’. But no narrator can be completely reliable at all. Because they always comment on events, characters which they have to and some of those comments I accept but you don’t. Being reliable means talking about the truths according to everyone and it is not possible to be fully reliable. But I think the concept ‘reliable’ has degrees anyway. Shortly, no one is completely reliable but someone could be more reliable than someone else. As I understood, the father died first.
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