You will prepare and submit a term paper on Self-Talk in A Rose for Emily. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Self-Talk in A Rose for Emily. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length. From this research it is clear that as Chittenden (2007) described, the first person technique in communication can allow a reader to feel very close to a specific character's point of view. The problem is that this perspective is limited for the reader. In the novel, the reader has to trust in “We” as speaking for the community and bear with this narrator to prove trustworthiness in relating the story.

Miss Emily stayed alone most of the time. Such situation, far removed from society would not do much to make her sane. She had her moments of hard to forgive and forget situations as in hopelessly waiting for Homer to marry her, only to find out that this is impossible as Homer is inclined to like young men more.

This paper makes a conclusion that “We” relates the events in its need to understand self and to interpret events and to find out its position in the whole thing. As the conscience of the community, “We” struggles to rehearse the fibers of what went before – although, for the meantime, things appear to be meaningless. Relating a story is a form of catharsis and some compensation that at least some of the troubles have ended – such as not anymore having the need to make Miss Emily pay her taxes, and eradicating the smell of death wherein Miss Emily would rather keep her dead.

Intrapersonal communication has an important function – at least for the self – in its need to untangle the threads of complicated life. As employed in the novel, “We” self-talks in its process of managing a relational conflict.