Compare and contrast "A Rose For Emily" and "Battle Royal."

The narrator
in A Rose for Emily describes how the townspeople thought of Emily and her father as a
tableau: a pair of figures riding in a buggy, Miss Emily in white, her father holding a whip.
If we think of a tableau as an illustration of meaning, a performance of sorts, we can see
that Emilys tableau is the performance of gendered roles in the South where womens bodies and
their contained sexuality were highly significant and at the center of culture. To protect the
white womans body, its sexuality and status, meant everything to those who had lived through and
fought the Civil War. But for Emily, protection also meant...