Grierson family
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The Grierson family is a prominent fictional Southern aristocratic lineage in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, most famously represented by Emily Grierson in “A Rose for Emily.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grierson family canonical | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern aristocratic family
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fictional family ⓘ literary character group ⓘ |
| appearsInFictionalSetting | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | A Rose for Emily ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Jefferson, Mississippi
ⓘ
surface form:
Jefferson, Mississippi (fictional)
|
| associatedWithRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
|
| connectedToTheme |
class and social hierarchy
ⓘ
gender roles in the Old South ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional setting)
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surface form:
United States (literary context)
|
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| familyReputation |
aloof
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controlling patriarch ⓘ proud ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Forum magazine (A Rose for Emily, 1930) ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Emily Grierson
ⓘ
Mr. Grierson ⓘ unnamed Grierson relatives ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Emily Grierson ⓘ |
| influencesCharacter |
Emily Grierson’s isolation
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Emily Grierson’s relationship to time and change ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Southern Gothic ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | American modernism ⓘ |
| locatedInText | short story A Rose for Emily ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodiment of town’s collective memory
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focus of community gossip ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yoknapatawpha saga
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surface form:
Yoknapatawpha County saga
|
| portrayedAs |
economically declining
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socially prestigious ⓘ wealthy in the past ⓘ |
| relatedTo | townspeople of Jefferson ⓘ |
| socialClass | Southern aristocracy ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
old Southern social order
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resistance to modernization ⓘ social and moral decay ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
death and decay
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decline of Southern aristocracy ⓘ isolation ⓘ memory and the past ⓘ tradition versus change ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction South
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post–American Civil War era ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.