There are many common fears. There are also uncommon fears varying from strange to funny to serious. Phobias can lead to many different things. They can make your life better or they can make it worse. In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" the use of internal conflict, flashbacks, and foreshadowing reveal the theme that an uncontrolled fear of abandonment can lead to cases of desperation for something that isn't there. In turn causing loneliness to drive one's actions to live without re-experiencing the fear of a loved one leaving.
The author uses Miss Emily Grierson's internal conflict between her longing and her loneliness to show how her father's death was the initial spark for her autophobia. Emily was used to being under the control of her father. Once her father passed, she had no knowing of what to do next …show more content…
The first tangent in the structure of the plot happened thirty years prior to Emily’s death and recently following her father’s death in the second section of the story, speaking about “the smell” that seemed to appear from the southern home. This rancid smell seeping from Miss Emily’s home was used to foreshadow both the death of another character and how she was affected by the loss of her father up until her own death. The smell is representative of a dead body while decomposing and implies that Emily was so desperate to not lose her father that she denied the townspeople the ability to take him from her to avoid desolation. The second time-shift in the plot flashed back before the smell to the death of Emily’s father. It represents the point in her life when Miss Emily Grierson felt most abandoned as well as the beginning of her isolation from the rest of the town. It foreshadowed her desperation also through her denial of his passing, just to keep from being an old maid for any longer than she
The author uses Miss Emily Grierson's internal conflict between her longing and her loneliness to show how her father's death was the initial spark for her autophobia. Emily was used to being under the control of her father. Once her father passed, she had no knowing of what to do next …show more content…
The first tangent in the structure of the plot happened thirty years prior to Emily’s death and recently following her father’s death in the second section of the story, speaking about “the smell” that seemed to appear from the southern home. This rancid smell seeping from Miss Emily’s home was used to foreshadow both the death of another character and how she was affected by the loss of her father up until her own death. The smell is representative of a dead body while decomposing and implies that Emily was so desperate to not lose her father that she denied the townspeople the ability to take him from her to avoid desolation. The second time-shift in the plot flashed back before the smell to the death of Emily’s father. It represents the point in her life when Miss Emily Grierson felt most abandoned as well as the beginning of her isolation from the rest of the town. It foreshadowed her desperation also through her denial of his passing, just to keep from being an old maid for any longer than she