While reading A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, it wasn’t your usual Gothic Story. It began by explaining who was Emily in the present time, then gave a flash back about Emily’s life and what she went through. A few pages in, there was a problem between Emily and the townspeople, on how Colonel Sartoris had stop Emily from paying taxes since her father loaned money to the town. Also, after two years of her fathers death, the man that she expect to married, left her. Maybe the reason why he left Emily is because he couldn’t see himself marrying her, and that possibly he is homosexual. The Gothic books we read is consist of a wife and husband showing physical and emotional connection. I feel that Emily wanted that but the abandonment from her first love really took a toll on her life. This short story is similar to The yellow wall paper, because there is that feeling of abandonment throughout the story, which ends up a female feeling unwanted. Furthermore, what I found it strange is the powerful odor that was roaming around Emily house, It seems like it was the smell of rotted flesh of her fathers. Yet, it turned out to be nothing. The summer after her fathers death, she meet Homer Barron, who was a foreman from the north, had spent some time with her. Unfortunately, had killed Barron, and strength him out on the second floor. wearing a wedding suit. Which was really creepy, I still don’t understand the head laying on the second pillow with a gray hair.
-Idaliz
