Cultural Knowledge:
Comparing American's women's rights in the Society in the time when the Story "A Rose for Emily" was written to the women's rights today in the American society.
I found it highly interesting how Emily as a female was harassed by the government's officials of her town, and there was no legal involvement to protect or defend her from harassment by these men, especially by people who worked for the government. I might be thinking beyond the structure and the theme of the story, but still it tells me that in the past women were not protected or defended if they were harassed as they are today. As an adult I know that a small amount of harassment to a female could send someone either to jail or prison.
However, if we consider women's rights today in the Middle East, especially in countries that are highly male dominated such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Egypt, women are basically considered the least important members of society. The number of men specialists is always higher compare to women in all kinds of fields. Unlike the middle East, today women in America are offered or given equal opportunities in all professions.
All I am trying to point out to is that as we learned that the setting of a story gives the reader the background, where the and when the story was written. Since the story of "A Rose for Emily" was written at a time when women's did not have the rights what they have today.
In the story "A Rose for Emily" the author did not mention of any legal involvement to defend or protect Emily form the the harrasment of her town's legal workers. More specifically, the author never mentioned of police or emily's case being investigated government officlas that work for women's rights. If a story similar to "A rose for Emily" was written today, a part of the story might have been about the legal involvement of the character's case.
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