Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on William Faulkners Barn Burning and A Rose for Emily: The Individual vs. the Community. It needs to be at least 2250 words.Download file to see prev

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on William Faulkners Barn Burning and A Rose for Emily: The Individual vs. the Community. It needs to be at least 2250 words.

This essay stresses that Faulkner symbolizes this struggle between the individual and the community through the character of Homer Barron. To begin with, he is a Yankee, meaning he will never be fully accepted into the mainstream of society no matter what he does. Miss Emily’s behavior in dating this man suggests her eagerness to step outside of the constraints she’d lived under while her father was alive. Homer himself is quick with a laugh and makes friends with everyone in town, but does not conform to social expectations in any way. The narrator in “Barn Burning”, young Sartoris, has a similar issue of independence vs. community as he pieces together the actions of his father and begins to differentiate himself from what he has always known.

This paper makes a conclusion that through both Miss Emily and Sartoris Snopes, William Faulkner presents us with examples of individuals struggling to emerge from the general press of their society. In Sartoris, he presents the struggle of the child attempting to escape the pressures and expectations of the family. Because of his youth and his lack of strong attachments, he is able to break away to discover a new life for himself. Miss Emily, however, spends her entire life under the watchful eye of her community, who take up much the same attitudes of her father where she’s concerned, and dies incapable of ever escaping the bounds placed upon her.