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 a) What is your point of view? Patriarchal Society (influence of the father)  The masculine part (father) stopped Emily from fullfilling her feminine part, she never got married because of her father.  The father and Homer defined Emily's fate (the whip is a symbol of masculin)  The chronological portraits of her physical appearance given in the story shows the changes in Emily´s mental state ( from a pretty lady to a gloomy old woman;)  The complex narration structure keeps the readers attention  The chronology manipulates and delays the reader’s opinion about the main character, however the portraits of her appearance changing are a foreshadowing of the story  The rose is a gift from the towners, or the rose is Emily herself (a faded rose)

b) Who do you agree or disagree with? We desagree with the authors that say the rose is a representation of Homer Baron, we more likely to accept that it is either a gift to Emily or Emily herself

c) How can you complement what has already been written? d) Do you have any new ideas? Besides all that Miss Emily, her father and Homer are symbols of the American society itself: The father is the old southerner tradition, Emily the post-Civil War South and Homer the North. They are representations of it. The old traditions suffocated the South keeping it from "growing up". The south, however, doesn't know how to live when it is finally free (after father's death). After the confrontation with the north (new, modern ideas) the south tries to hold on to its old manners and starts to fade away in a a world that has no space for old ideas