William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily

[@curuvari2247]

I'm so grateful for every audiobook to which I, with my otherwise short attention span, can read along during my studies. Thank you so much for this; it was wonderfully read.

[@kimberlyaglapion9767]

You're not alone. Audiobooks freed up my hands for taking notes instead of holding the book and turning pages. And hearing it helped me comprehend more.

[@adamlisinski2769]

Sounded like a COD lobby with all those hard R's

[@j3rmifn313]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jakewebster5084]

Except there’s actually use of English in here. In CoD, you only have people calling each other noob or fag. Or just the lone sound of a dank fart…

[@anthonyzolanski8775]

LMFAOOOOOO

[@tcaw8813]

Shut up dude, you all suck

[@sock7481]

@@tcaw8813 ok

[@amayou82]

That hard R does it for me every time, but back to the point of the story.

[@giftedwolf6671]

Fr

[@MichanLacey]

nah fr 🫠

[@kcg6024]

I paused it for a second and had to take a second to accept that it just happened. Several times in a row lmao

[@mo-morock2974]

omg get over it. it's for educational purposes.

[@amayou82]

@@mo-morock2974 replying to a post from a year ago, but telling me to get over something, riiiiiight. Be blessed.

[@burningskeleton8892]

Pro tip, up the playback speed to 1.75x or 2x.

[@awesomemantroll1088]

I'm slow and adhd. Pass

[@awesomemantroll1088]

I'm doing that in recap, in review. How tf can you do that the first time? You beast.

[@4uhhhh]

ily

[@astrabeth50]

thank you ugh read alongs talk so slow!!

[@jamesrodriguez359]

Are y’all doing this in English?

[@ncj8879]

Me! Idk what the point of this story is? How hard it was for African Americans back then? Dark literature?

[@dreg1031]

yep

[@awesomemantroll1088]

Yes

[@haileyweeks621]

Heh yea

[@aceventura4413]

AP lit

[@John_Sturgeon]

Really glad the text was read unabridged. Omitting slurs from historical texts really takes away from the text itself and the picture being painted of the old South. It was racist, it was hateful, and taking away from the hate and the bigotry the story depicts just takes away from the significance of the story itself. I mean, I'm gay, but I'd be really disappointed if a narrator refused to say "faggot" in an audiobook or if a publisher redacted it from a story the way a lot of people want the n-word redacted (I censor myself here because I'm not quoting a text and using it conversationally is a different matter altogether).

[@clayrock78]

For anyone struggling to understand the story, I recommend you watch Course Hero's summary and analysis. Good luck!

[@johnsmith6304]

Girl, when I say I was shocked-

[@whereiscoffee]

Thank you. I truly enjoy Debra Winger's reading. Listening to her voice, it's as if I'm watching a movie. 3 times Academy Award nominee for Best Actress! Came from S- Town.

[@sammygarcia1846]

I’m not going to lie, I looked this up because MCR’s song ‘To The End’ is apparently based on it. I’m so glad I did! I love literature and now I’m a fan of Faulkner’s work

[@zakkeriahfoster1819]

WAIT WHAT?????? this is perfect I JUST went to an mcr concert, just got readdicted to three cheers, and my lit teacher just assigned this reading WHAT ARE THE DAMN CHANCES

[@sammygarcia1846]

@@zakkeriahfoster1819 LMAOOO! Ur so lucky tho!! I’d give a limb to see them

[@user-in7jw9ik4c]

Exceptional Story... Great for a Halloween Macabre Tale..🕸️... An Amazing Southern Writer.. How He Lets Us Embrace Life .. ☕

[@Kater2]

Very well read. I enjoyed listening to it while reading along. Thanks for reading it as originally written.

[@nellieb.611]

I recognized her voice instantly. You always remember a unique voice.

[@JamesMartinBass]

Such a beautiful reading. I didn't know that Debra Winger did audiobooks. This is a near-perfect story, perfectly read.

[@brynleighhill4830]

the way she used the hard r so casually, and even pronounded the word "riggers" as the n word with a hard r when that wasn't even the word 😭😭

[@elbabysnail4135]

Just a magnificent Gothic tale...don't know of any other story that comes close

[@garymagruder7154]

Great reading of a piece of Southern Gothic by one of our greatest writers . The story so well captures a snapshot of a time and place . Wow !

[@JHarder1000]

When Flannerry O'Connor was asked what she thought of Faulkner, her answer was "You get off the track when when the Dixie Special goes through." One of the ten or twelve towering geniuses of American Literature. (Ms O'Connor herself probably belongs in the top twenty five.)

[@shemekiawilliams408]

Listening to the reader read is as if I’m watching a movie, I love it and also thankful for it

[@zhanghaofrfr]

Passing AP Litty thanks to you 🙏🔥🔥🔥

[@ttboosted7634]

Ahhhh I fucking hate college English 1301. This is the first of 4 assignments due today... 2 of them are essays

[@Ashley-pg5md]

What is this story saying.. I literally have no idea I've listened to it so many times 😭

[@imyosrii4204]

Same 😭😭😭

[@cobinasaur]

It's written in Old Book Language.

[@waitingforwonderland6036]

I hate it can my teacher pick books that actually has a plot please

[@emiroyunda4423]

AP lit gang

[@Thelast_killjoy]

🤙🤙

[@The_God_Of_Wolf]

🙌

[@orlandoguerreroromero5549]

It is one of my short stories that I teach in my course of American Literature. I had the opportunity to write a research paper about it when I was doing my master in literature.

[@zayree-q7m]

i am writing a research on Emily's character analysis, could i ask for your research paper if you don't mind?

[@allthingsreesey9174]

@@zayree-q7m 🤣

[@mariamason1919]

I could listen to Debra Winger read terms and conditions and enjoy it. Great reading and want to thank you for sharing this and so many great reads. Subscribed, liked and thank you!

[@DaliaRose1990]

Great story. Vivid. Emily lived just a sad life.

[@vpnshejz]

this is for my ap english class

[@red-glitch]

I see why my teacher didn’t want to read with us

[@ajhugh1]

Thank you for this reading. I'm trying to help my son complete an analysis on the poem and I needed some help! ❤❤

[@chinghu9870]

Definitely one of my favorite short stories

[@ErickGonzalez-xd3fr]

It's Maggie from The Ranch.

[@emilinebelle7811]

Loved it. 💜 they don’t make them like this anymore

[@floatingbacon3909]

For a reason….

[@stinkfinga4918]

​@@floatingbacon3909 not a good one...

[@jeffjones6951]

Miss Winger misprounced "august" at 0:43 and 1:01

[@elisabethcruz8684]

It’s the hard R for me

[@calliopejones9695]

Oh, Miss Deborah! What an excellent job you do with this story! Thank you so much! Love, Calliope Jones and Beings

[@Ontario100]

One of my favorite short stories. Thanks for doing this !!

[@fyi_ryan8777]

This was great thank you

[@dismith73]

William Cuthbert Faulkner September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962

[@luftim]

I dont understand this short story? what is it about?

[@richmondblackburn7346]

why are all these comments so recent

[@_spoingus_786]

Bruh I have to do this for online school

[@bunnie5775]

Lmao

[@euphoriatae886]

@@_spoingus_786 me too

[@yosmaravargas3985]

@@_spoingus_786 same

[@YaoEspirito]

KZbin comments; the place where nobody can figure out which punctuation to place at the end of a question.

[@turtferguson4831]

Name of my high school hardcore band

[@sugarantsandwiches6581]

well read! love this audio ty

[@votyn]

Sounds cool but I still don't know whats the point of this story LOLOLOL

[@weareallfritz4365]

Well it was Gothic literature, and from what I've heard Gothic literature was supposed to show how messed up the south was at the time

[@veganwaffle]

Watch sixminutescholar she legit has the critical breakdown of every major school reading

[@awesomemantroll1088]

Sparknotes, bro

[@cakefunny5813]

Thank you for the cc subtitles

[@elizadanielle8814]

She dragged it I prefer her saying negro or rigger and giving a disclaimer that it meant the N word because she was wayyyyyy too comfortable saying it the first one was ight but then she started getting me tight😂

[@Katie-T-Tran]

well, it was written in 1930, and in the South. I think she just stick it to the story. But your point would be great during dicussion, how our mindset has changed :)

[@killua99944]

@@Katie-T-Tran I still would have preferred if the slurs were removed. The slurs added nothing to the story other than informing you that it was written by a racist during a racist time.

[@mamabear3217]

This is the third story my English instructor has assigned with this type of language, like they are trying to upset us

[@Ematched]

@@mamabear3217 or, they're trying to expose you to iconic, yet flawed, literature.

[@Ematched]

@@killua99944 I think that's a lazy reading of Faulkner, to call him a racist during a racist time. He frequently writes about the bigotry of the South in unflattering ways. _A Light in August_ in particular.

[@jasonmartinez2316]

bruhh chiilll

[@somebodysomebody7067]

very vivid

[@991marine7]

10:08 Part 3

[@maddierose3114]

its the hard-r for me

[@Jaiboue]

theres no middle ground w gothic literature either its hella racist or any characters of color don't exist à la tim burton

[@Ematched]

Yeah, it's super polarized. I think that's likely because the setting for American gothic literature is inherently racist, so the choice is to either show the racism or pretend like black people all disappeared.

[@SpakKing]

thank u

[@arturorodriguez8561]

Squidward

[@lostuser6410]

“It’s okay to say it if I’m reading a story”

[@lakshikaverma3852]

Very nice

[@yfthecash]

Who gave her the n-word pass 💀

[@stinkfinga4918]

You did by not learning how to read

[@karitabanana]

Would be awesome if the n-word was bleeped out in this so that I could play it more easily for my class. She's such a good reader!

[@stinkfinga4918]

Why bleep it? You're doing a disservice as an educator. All my best teachers had a controversial lesson or two of their own volition.

[@4fellas_with_thegame]

Mga Pinoy grade 9 nakikinig para sa English subject 👇👇

[@xtrdrftr9]

On Skibidi

[@4fellas_with_thegame]

​@@xtrdrftr9 W Sean

[@ncj8879]

Soooo what was the point of this story? How hard and dark times were for African Americans? If not then I’m lost, someone help 🙂

[@awesomemantroll1088]

Sparknotes. That's what you Google for English assignments.

[@johnsmith6304]

Yesss sirrr!!! Sparknotes summaries are the best

[@TheMexicanZombie99]

anyone notice she dropped an N-bomb where it was not written at all. It says "riggers and mules" not what she said LOL

[@floatingbacon3909]

Fucking blaaaahhhhhhh……….. I am only here in order to bypass the tortures of reading this..

[@waitingforwonderland6036]

Same 😭😭😭

[@oliverbergsmeds9966]

riktig banger (grät)

[@991marine7]

5:32 Part 2

[@roscoefoofoo]

Fine stuff. But "august" is pronounced "ah-GUST," not like the month August ("AWgust"). As an adjective, "august" means "majestic dignity or grandeur."

[@johnrolle6645]

Just like people take classes in how to Elizabethan and Jacobean text. So too, American writers like Faulkner and August Wilson, and other writers evincing the American folk. It may be that their texts carry with them a specific sound and rhythm that the advent of mass media in the form of the news broadcast and radio has kinda given regionalism a kind of white washing that unwittingly sacrifices the beauty of dialect. I only mention this because many of if not all the people that hold the music of such writers are all dead or nearly so. America is too big and varied to have everybody sounding like they are from Ohio or Illinois.

[@samanthamichelleest97]

I love Faulkner, but it’s the obscene use of the N word that really makes me not want to listen to his works, nor read them. It makes me uncomfortable.

[@ChopinIsMyBestFriend]

that’s what good literature does. makes the reader uncomfortable. you get an idea of how it was. imagine how regular people talked in conversation! you’d be uncomfortable alright. i’m sure being white in the south, it would be extremely hard to not be brainwashed by the racism. Doesn’t make it right. but historically accurate.

[@isleidythcedillo7106]

Amazin

[@dayamichavezzz09]

10:08

[@canadianfuckheads2582]

Anyone else miss too much class:(

[@johnsmith6304]

😫🤚

[@TheKillingJoke123]

Me: can't believe she is saying the Hard R! Also Me: *Not missing a word to any Kendrick Lamar song*

[@zariawebb-atkinson1976]

kinda hate that i was forced to listen to this

[@Ematched]

Not a fan of Southern gothic?

[@zariawebb-atkinson1976]

@@Ematched not a fan of racism

[@Ematched]

@@zariawebb-atkinson1976 you've never come across a racist character/narrator before? Have you read many stories/books? "forced"? Were you strapped to a chair and forced to listen?

[@zariawebb-atkinson1976]

@@Ematched some people have school, so like I said I was *forced* to listen to this. if you spend your time reading shit that's shamelessly racist then that's on you, not me. I dont indulge myself in that shit and never will, thanks

[@Ematched]

@@zariawebb-atkinson1976 you could just read it, or not read it, or not listen to it. It's pretty clear that you aren't familiar with Southern Gothic literature. Most of the point is to show how fucked up the South is. Guess what? (Shhh, I have to whisper this) Racists existed and still exist in the South. Guess what else? (I've really gotta whisper this one) Sexists existed and still exist in the South.

[@steventhealien4752]

Saying the hard er with some much breeze 🤨

[@patar_fui_fui_1308]

*yandere vibes*

[@ahuav1206]

sussy

[@treeflesh1661]

ayo??

[@thesnaleswag]

mogus!??⛔️

[@Shortix21]

Terrible story, cant believe we are reading this in college.

[@marseancooper2923]

We reading this in high school🤦🏾‍♂️

[@_spoingus_786]

Marsean Cooper same

[@charissbarrow7586]

@@marseancooper2923 same lmaoo

[@Ematched]

It's literally one of the greatest American short stories ever written. Try not to be so fragile.

[@gabrielov8027]

@@Ematched Bro this has nothing to do with fragile, a combination of 2 things happened in this entire fucking story. She was weird and then she died. This is the worst worthless piece of literature I've ever had to read.

[@alexd186]

Lol anyone here from English in Redondo Union HS??

[@alaric_is_kevin]

i understand its a really old story that were probably all reading for school but ngl the way shes saying that is so uncomfortable

[@constanzacreel5894]

you should not say the n word, it is disrespectful, even when you are reading it you can simply avoid it and say n word.

[@hyper_candy576]

you never know if the narrator is black tho

[@graciedinsmore2739]

True

[@athenac7615]

@@hyper_candy576 narrator isnt black

[@hyper_candy576]

@@athenac7615 yeah I knew that but like from what I’ve looked up you can say the word for like educational reasons but the narrator is white and it sounds hella racist

[@stinkfinga4918]

You should not try and censor words, especially only doing so under specific circumstances. Say what you really mean; only people with light skin tones shouldn't say it. For everyone else it's common vernacular and as casual as 'friend'. Fuck. That.

[@mamabear3217]

Either describe us abstract or don't but that word is truly disgusting

[@Ematched]

Yep, gives you a flavor of the Southern culture it depicts, doesn't it?

[@lillybarnes6677]

It was written in the 30s while referring to a time much sooner than that.. don't be so sensitive

[@katieskorner8164]

This book was written in a time that the deep south called Blacks the n wirkd and all germans were called nazi's. This reading should show everyone hiw far we have come and WHY America is Great vs reading this as if it were written in 2020. Doing the latter us wgat our Educational ststens do now as it us the only means they have besides fake news, to divide us racially. Division is a Marcist dream. So...take the era into acct , compair the times and see how great we became with all the Republicans, Blacks and Whites who stood for the laws written in our Constitution ti apply TO ALL and marched for Civil Rights till they did.

[@Morniiinstarr]

@@lillybarnes6677 don't tell a black person how to feel about a slur.

[@sock7481]

Well you want to delete history or somethin? And in this context someone reading a book, not calling a black person the n word.

[@disistheway2010]

No no no, this accent is not acceptable for a story like this.

[@ChrisChrisChrisChrisChrisChris]

Oh my God that was boring

[@SpadezTheLegend]

“hate comment “

[@success_is_key4286]

This is SUCH a pointless story. Like pointless... pointless!!!!!

[@snoworveins1212]

Meh, to each his or her own.

[@kaliannmclendon6945]

Coming to terms with change, accepting indifferences, the awful ways that people in the old South followed traditional aspects that force women to get a husband, obey the typical social norms, and conform to societal standards. The pity her without ever knowing how awful the truth really is. She has separation anxiety because her father never allowed her to explore individualism and falls in love with a gay man who will never marry her. Because she was never allowed to any of the men to be acceptable for her she became obsessed with the first man she got any attention from. Thus, now causing attachment issues as well. Heart break, insanity, social conformity, tradition, pleasure, patriarchy, and misfortune could all be a theme for this piece.

[@bifrizzo7669]

I love how all the white people are like " Ohh love this story it's soo good!" & all the black people were triggered when she said the N-word with the hard "R"

[@graciedinsmore2739]

I’m white and the story was stupid and boring and the narrator should not have said the n word

[@Brap-pl2me]

@@graciedinsmore2739You’re an idiot, Gracie

[@stinkfinga4918]

Looking at comments you got it backwards. The white kids are scared and uncomfortable, the black adults are like 'what a great story' lol

[@Brap-pl2me]

@@graciedinsmore2739 You’re a moron, Gracie

[@chailatte7143]

Dumb af.

[@hipyoronin3558]

thats racist :|

[@waitingforwonderland6036]

I hate how I’m forced to read this for class 💀💀💀

[@FriendlyFireProductions]

REEEAL

[@HausofHoneyy]

Literally same 😂

[@Agoobernamedseth]

OH NO she said the hard R. Dude shut up she’s reading a story who the hell cares, plus again she’s reading a story, so it really doesn’t even count

[@dreg1031]

What a stupid story

[@ThievesbaneKelsier]

how do u think the town motived the crime of the murder?

[@jack2002rocks]

Wow this book fucking sucks. Can't believe I have to write a paper on this bullshit

[@plastikchild]

wow! that was boring