A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is written in stream of consciousness because it feels as we are seing the events unfold though another person perferebly through the eyes of an antagonist. The people of the town where Miss Emily lives would be the antagonist because they remark horrible things about Mis Emily and try to get in her business. Miss Emily would be the protagonist because the story is about her and it revolves around her life and what other people say and think about her. Miss Emily chooses to be lonely when her father is alive because I had the sense that maybe her father chased away all her want to be lovers. The setting is a small town and more likely it would be Miss Emilys house. Through out the story the towns people want to know what goes on in her house and it revolves around her and her house. The story takes plae through out time because the towns people coment on how she was young and beautiful but then shes getting older and grayer and stumpy. Not much is revealed about the character just that she keeps to herself and people describe her as somewhat insane because when her father died she didnt want to bury him and the towns people at first thought she was mad but then they labeled it as her grieving. The towns people also question her sanity because she wants to buy poison but wont tell the pharmacist what its for and they think shes gonna kill herself but she dosnt. Miss Emily finally has a lover but he soons disappears and people make this out to be as if Mis Emily cant be loved. Miss Emilys lover turns out to be dead and found in her upstairs room, the way I read the story was the towns people had the feeling that Miss Emily killed her lover and thatwould tie in with the poison she bought. I believe she bought the poison to kill herself but then didnt have a motive to use it anymore because love came into her life. When she knew her time was near she decided to kill her lover and so she wouldnt be alone when she crossed over to a better life. The Denouement showed that Miss Emily laid in bed with her lover before her time came as if saying I will join you soon.

I enjoyed this story very much I found it very interesting that I read it more than once. Miss Emily was the talk of the town and to me it made it seem like the towns peoples life was boring becaue they kept track of her through out her life. The towns people wanted some excitment in their lives so thats why they turned to Miss Emily's life to keep them occuppied for a long time. I thought the character Miss Emily was an interesting character because she didnt listen to what people said about her, she didnt care for people because she knew that they were just snooping around in her life so they could get some excitement out of it. I expected the ending to end like it did but it stil gave me goosebumps. It was a good story overall.