Response 9

“A Rose For Emily” was a pretty interesting read. In the story I find the theme that makes this gothic is the fear of loneliness. I say this because as you can see Emily was royalty so she wanted to get married to pass down her bloodline, but she can’t find the perfect person for her. Everyone in the town thought that Barron would be her husband but the story tells us he’s gay. Now that I think about it Emily probably killed the baron with the poison so no one else could have him. Some proof that would support that she can’t let go of things easily is that when her father died the village wanted to bury his body but Emily resisted for a long time saying that he was still alive. While the story goes on you can see how Emily’s figure deteriorates. By this I mean her physical appearance she ends up having a full head of grey hair when she isn’t even that old. This was probably due to being stressed out knowing that if anyone found out that she had Barron’s dead body in her home she was probably going to be punished. I also found out that corruption really stands out in this story. For example when she was buying the poison the man did question her and she didn’t really give him a legit answer, but he still gave her the poison because she was royalty and even if it’s against the law to give poison without writing down the reason she can bypass that rule. I thought that the story was pretty good even though it confused me in the beginning.