ENGL 1080 Lecture 3: Elements of Fiction & The Short Story
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Read kate chopin"s the story of an hour carefully. The character of a woman who has passed. Stubborn, defiant, the law is subordinate, non-respondent to fear, senile (forgets. Miss emily is unchanging although modernism is all around her she lives in a world of class distinction as the lines of class are blurred around her. Reference to her noblesse oblige when she associates herself with a northern day labourer. Narrative explanation of how emily grierson was perceived by the town. Dialogue i have no taxes in jefferson. ; perhaps he considers himself the sheriff . Setting second paragraph (narrator describes the house, the neighbourhood, the changing of this neighbourhood through the modern age, etc. ) Imagery the smell of her house; miss emily motionless as that of an idol ; miss. Emily in solitude called upon the sympathy of the town. Plot no chronological order; a series of flashbacks.