“A Rose for Emily” is a very disturbing story. The quote “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” basically says it all because the thought of finding a dead corpse then seeing an indentation where someone else had lying beside the corpse is a little past creepy . Emily must have been insane not only because she had a dead body in her house but the dead body was the guy that she supposedly loved and murdered him. Losing her father must have really affected her mental. The way she stays by her fathers bed denying the fact that he is actually dead kind of shows that she has the mental capacity of a child that doesn’t really understand death as a whole until they get older.
The surprising face was that the town didn’t say anything even when it smelled horrible. The quote “will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” is bewildering because body odor usually doesn’t smell like rotting carcass. Did no one question where Homer went to? Did people in the town ever question why Emily stayed in her house all the time? How did her family members not know? There is so many unanswered questions that readers would want to know. Overall this was a kind of interesting story even though it was disturbing.
I agree with you Megan about something being mentally wrong with Emily, because the fact that she could not accept the fact that her father had died brought out her immaturity, and made her look foolish. I don't agree with saying that killing her husband was the right thing to do but I understand that Emily did it to protect the way others looked at her, because if she were to divorce her husband that may have been more embarrassing in her opinion.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree too. Emily was without a doubt not mentally sane. I think how much her father shelters her for her entire life really effects her. I cannot imagine what went through her head when she decided to kill Homer and then sleep beside the body every night. I think she is definitely a disturbing individual.
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