Rose For Emily
...described without a the words " not quite normal",
and "extra ordinary." The story, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is about one
woman's life, from her being a teen to her death in her house. The town's people did not
like her, her family did not like her, but when she died, everybody showed up to Miss
Emily's Funeral.
The only person to see Emily was her old manservant, a black man that was the cook
and the gardener. The only time that the town would see him was when her went to the
grocery store to shop. He would never talk to anybody while he was there.
The end of her life never saw Emily out of her house. The town questioned this, but
Emily soon just became another story with the town.
Miss Emily was not always alone. When she was younger, her father lived at the
house with her. He was a man without his sanity. When ever a male would come to the
house to see Emily, he would great them at the door, and see them off before Emily could
even say hello. The town used this excuse for Emily when her father died. He was dead
for three days before she would let the coroner to take him out of the house. This can be
seen as the beginning of Emily's decent to madness.
Emily was not always without a man. The town was getting sidewalks put in, and a
group of colored men from the north was called in to build them. Their Foreman went
by the name of Homer Barron.
We began to see him (Homer) and
Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons
driving in the yellowed-wheeled
buggy
It was at this time that Emily bought poison from the druggist. The...
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