Fetterly and Moreno

Blog 1:
Judith Fetterly
In this textual analysis of "A Rose for Emily," I came across a few different areas that the author focused on. One focal point was the expectations of women in a patriarchal society and how Emily Grierson did not live up to or meet the expectations. A good example of this point was how the author explained that when Emily bought the poison, no one thought she would use it to commit murder, but rather suicide. Women were supposed to be helpless and could not survive without the help of a man, however Emily proved that she had power over both men and women in the community. Another example of this main point was made when the author stated, " A Rose for Emily is the story of a lady and her revenge for that grotesque identity." The second focus point that I concluded after reading this essay was the community's constant gossip about Emily. It seemed as though those who lived in her neighborhood wanted to know her whereabouts and what she was doing at all times. Fetterly states, "Indeed, though she shuts herself up in  house which she rarely leaves and which no one enters, her furious isloation is in direct proportion to the town's obsession with her." The town's ongoing talks and whispers about Emily proves that they were more concerned about her and she did not even give them a second look. There are many different important points throughout this essay and there were so many different things to choose from, but while reading through it I found the two above points to be most important in regards to research.

The methodological approaches for this particular essay is through the perspective of the narrator and this is definitely a textual anaysis more than any of the other methods we discussed in class. The author goes into great detail about specific texts from the story to get her main points across.

This method is used all the time in writing and reading for school and even in our everyday life. We analyze articles and stories in our English courses from pretty much the beginning of our college careers, but i think people also use textual analysis when reading newspapers, magazines, and even our favorite websites on the internet. As a future teacher, I think that I would use this method when helping my students in the classroom, as well as when researching new ideas for my students.

 Moreno
1.) Could you use one of the interviewing methods we discussed in class to get similar results?

2.) If this same research was done with another perespective would it change the results completely?