So I don't know exactly what to write about for this one. I've already read this last semester in English 101.
This is a very neat story and I enjoy it. When I first read it I was very confused on how old Emily was and exactly what she looked like. After finishing the story i quickly put everything together and understood everything. I think that in the last part where they find the silver hair is so exciting. its intriguing and also leaves the reader to believe what they want. I think that she secretly slept next to her dead "almost-finacee" Its creepy and eerie but I love it. the narrator of this story i think were the townspeople...often it says "we" meaning a group of people and who better to think she was crazy then them. if it were told from emily's point of view i dont think that she would seem so crazy..or weird or anything that we view her as now. we see that emily buys arsenic for some obscene reason and we think that it is to kill someone...mainly homer. especially because he just randomly disappears one day. Overall this is a good short story and I like it, although it is very weird...I think she doesnt mean to be a crazy madwoman but she still is, regardless. I don't know why its called a rose for emily....
Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI think that final moment when the hair is revealed is a great moment in the story. It's like the resolution of the story but also the climax. Everything comes together but it's so exciting you don't feel like that's the correct ending.
I also think that Emily's sanity is called into question. How much of what happened in the story was actually her fault and how much of it was the result of the (suspected) emotional abuse of her father and the madness that runs in her family?
BTW, I spent a very long time playing with the fish on your homepage. I don't know if there's a point to it or not, but I liked it!
Becky