A Rose for Emily

This story was a different version of Gothic than I expected. With our transition to the American Gothic the ideas of racism and and segregation   would be a more profound Gothic trope. The ideas that this story presents is something that we have been previously exposed to. The idea of the man controlling the woman, in the story the narrator says that Ms. Emily’s life was controlled by her father,and even in his death she was still under his control and she didn’t want to let his body go. Some of the other Gothic ideas that this story brings up is homosexuality. The northerner that Ms Emily yet was said to be fond of young men and would spend his time at the bar trying to pick them up. This story even touched on the fact that a woman is capable of killing her husband or the man she was with. Before this in all of the books and stories we have read the woman was never someone who could kill, and even up to the end when the body was revealed no one believed that Ms. Emily has killed anybody, they all thought that she would kill herself and never to be seen again. In all this story was a run through of many of the Gothic ideas and with the evolution to the American Gothic it will be interesting to see how the different ideas develop over time