I really enjoyed William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” it was very weird and interesting. I really liked the description used in the story and the foreshadowing (only knew it foreshadowed after I read it with the teacher) but, when I read first read it by myself I could not understand every word used to describe things, for example when the story described the house by “squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies” I thought to myself, “what on earth am I reading?” My reaction after reading the entire story was just shock that anyone is able to do something so gross but not see what they are doing is wrong. When I read the story I missed so many thing, the reader had to be paying attention to the story or else they would miss something which happened to me, a lot. I was lost until I got to the end and understood the way the author put the story together. I was a bit challenged as a reader at times because the story was written out of order on purpose. Since the author wrote it the way it is, the story got more interesting towards the middle of the story and got an edge that pulled the reader in, it intrigued me a lot. After reading it a second time with the teacher I saw that certain events are foreshadowed throughout the entire story, I understood the description a lot better than I did when I read it the first time. I saw the story a bit different, how Emily was sheltered a lot by her dad, the decaying state of the corpse, and how the salesman had a lot of suspicion towards the rat poison. My response stayed the same although, I just understood the text better.
Emily was sheltered a lot when she was a child. Her father did not allow her to do much of anything. She was always expected to act honorably since she was high of status in the community. Since Emily never developed emotionally or socially she didn’t know how to interact very well with others. One day she meets this man named Homer which was who she loved and it seemed like everything was going good, until one good afternoon Mrs. Emily went to the store to buy rat poison and nobody ever saw Homer again. People thought he just went back north, but they later found out it was Emily who killed him. She had his dead body in a bed upstairs that she would lie next to. She did not know how to survive alone so when someone came into her life she was not going to let them get away. Having nothing in life made her go crazy. She didn’t know what real love was or what was socially appropriate. So desperate not to be alone and live happy she killed Homer. The people in the town felt Emily was off, believing she was crazy and saying she would kill herself. She never was taught how to love the right way and how to interact socially because of her father and it hurt her social skills a lot. Even though this text is almost a century old, it can reflect in the times now.
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