#1 Faulkner

When the story started, I thought it was like any other story I have read, however, towards the ending, after discovering what Emily has been doing all this time, it actually shocked me because I was not expecting this ending. It made me think how different every person thinks, everyone has their own mindset and it is hard to predict someone’s actions before they do something. Something very interesting popped up in the story, and that was the title “A Rose for Emily” which has nothing to do with the story. I am still trying to think what does the title has to do with the story because there is no trace of any roses in the story. This is story reminds me of episodes of “Criminal Minds” which shows all kinds of murders that we will not expect that it will happen at all. What happened in this story is something unbelievable for me.

In the story, the author tried to tell us that even a high social status and a quiet personality can show sympathy for dead people, however, before sympathy, there is murder. And the author used many elements to keep the readers interested, flashbacks, the author started from the present and then he flashed back to the past to show us the life of Emily and what she has been doing for all these years, and towards the end, the author brought us to the present to solve the mysteries that Emily has been keeping. Another element is the atmosphere, by presenting in the readying certain gothic elements like the gargoyle, dark painting, father’s statute, etc, the environment was heavy and obscure which keeps the reader in fear. And of course irony because no one was expecting, or at least I was not, that Emily will keep the dead body so well preserved and in good shape for so many years; and the strangest part is that she has been sleeping with the dead body for so many years.  The irony is that why kill someone that you like?