C. [Race] [Class] [Gender] [Religion][Sexual Orientation] [Self-identity] 2 or 3 page PAPER Pick two characters, one each from any works read this Semester. Describe how one of the bracketed...

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Pick two characters, one each from any works read this Semester. Describe how one of the bracketed demographics above affects each character.
    William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” published in 1930, revolves around the life of Miss Emily Grierson, an unsociable and withdrawn spinster of genteel upbringing who becomes the center of her community’s attention. Emily’s aggressive rejection of society, after her father’s demise, is an attempt to thwart the town’s flagrant disregard of her privacy. The townspeople put her on a pedestal owing to her gender and upper-class heritage and feel a sense of ‘hereditary obligation’ (Faulkner 40) towards her: “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care” (40). In the minds of the townspeople, she is the upholder of Southern femininity which essentially deprives her of sexual desires and agency. It can be argued that her suggested necrophilia, which makes “A Rose for Emily” such an obviously Gothic tale, is “a perverse reaction to the pressures of a...