The structure of "A Rose for Emily" is a bit different
from most stories in that, in typical Faulkner fashion, the story just ENDS with a
shocking discovery that has been foreshadowed from the
start.
The rising action is the set-up to the story. We are
given all pof the background about Miss Emily, we are given the stories about her and
her father, about Homer Baron, about the rat poison and the smell that came from her
place.
The climax is when they find the hair on her pillow.
Everything in this story leads up to this moment.
The
falling action is unstated, really, as this is told in a flashback format. You could
almost look at it as occurring only in the reader's reflections on what has
occurred.
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