ENG-111
Due 2/19/14
There have been many ways in which I have been stereotyped by people. Some examples of how I’ve been stereotyped are my religion and being a Christian, being a teenager and a girl, my race, how much money my family has, and even where I come from and live. Me being a teenage girl and having just having graduated from high school in 2013, I still remember how stereotypes in school, especially in high school worked. I was always stereotyped as being a nerdy little know-it-all because I was shy and quiet and I always had a tendency to be an over achiever when it came to school work and extra credit. In some of my classes I was stereotyped as being a “teacher’s pet” just because I got along well with a specific teacher and I continuously had a good grade in that class. People assumed that I was stuck up and snotty just because I was quiet and very shy so I hardly talked to anyone and just kept to myself, and in doing that people thought that I considered myself to be better than everyone else. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” Miss Emily Grierson was being stereotyped by the town’s people as a freak or as being creepy. Looking at Emily from the town’s people’s point of view I could see why they thought Emily was a freak because of the way she acted and then things that she did. But coming from Miss Emily’s point of view I have somewhat of an understanding why she did what she did and why she acted the way that she did. The town’s people considered Emily a disgrace to the town just because she kept to herself. My past experience with being stereotyped helps make me view how Emily is characterized a lot better. Just because I was quiet and kept to myself, much like Miss Emily does in the story, made people characterize me as being rude or snotty, and I’m sure some people even considered me to be weird because I was somewhat anti-social, and Emily was characterized almost as being the same way as I was. Like I said previously, the town’s...