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Post 4: A Rose For Emily

In the short story "A Rose For Emily", the plot was what I would compare to a popcorn plot, it hops around a lot, not being told by the author William Faulkner, in a chronological order that some stories are usually portrayed with. This made this story stand out to me. Litcharts also pointed out that the "narrative quickly shifts back in time", this is made obvious when first begging to read this story as it starts talking about Emily's funeral, then the pieces of the story are told in an extreme time-hop/warp manner. This first sentence, "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral..." at this point we have no clue who Emily is and of course the narrator fills in with the detail later for us to gain a better understanding, but keep the surprise factor.

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