Response 9 (M.R)

A Rose for Emily is an extremely Gothic piece of work. we see a lot of themes that one can consider Gothic. Such as keeping a body of a dead or a cadaver on a bed and a form on  pillow next to it has a spot where it looks like a head rested next to the body; which brings in the thought of necrophilia. Maybe she just lied next to the dead body or maybe she tried to have sex with the cadaver. Another theme we see in the story is the theme of alienation from society and this shown as over time as Miss Emily becomes more and more distant from the people around her and these people start to question if she is fine or maybe she is insane. her only companion being a “negro” that she would send to get food, etc. also the theme of homosexuality is used in here as we see Miss Emily seems to grow sentiments for Homer Barron; a man known to remark that he liked men, even drank with younger men in a club and was known to not be a marrying man. Another theme is suicide, for as we see in the story Miss Emily goes to a druggist and demands poison and the reader(like me) starts to wonder, even the other characters(like the narrator) start to wonder, is she going to kill herself? or maybe its even implied that she planned to kill someone else in her home(like Homer Barron; who was last seen entering the house). it was a great read and i would absolutely recommend.