Blog# 5

Both of these stories use suspense to build to somewhat bizarre climaxes. Looking at one of the stories, discuss how the ending was foreshadowed by the text, and what sort of lesson the author is hoping for the reader to gain.
"A Rose For Emily"
1. The beginning of this story was kind of confusing and dry.Maybe it because readers arent told who the narrator is and we are left to guess. I really felt like giving up but I had no choice but to continue. So I read on and it turned out to be pretty good. It was a story in which you have to read certain sentences more than once just to make sure you have the point. Some of the situations, ie the arsenic, left readers perplexed because we dont know who is going to die as the result of this poison. I loved the twist and turn Faulkner used that left readers and suspense. When I finished reading , I had so many questions to ask Emily but now its like since shes dead theres a whole lot of unanswered things she left behind. Something that was interesting was that the man who worked in Emily's house walked out as soon as people entered the home. He didnt want blame to be placed on him for anything AND he was the only person who knew the answers to the many questions people would now have for him.

2.Readers are given hints as to who would be harmed and how, but I guess we think since Emily is such an awkward character that she wanted to kill herself. She mightve been depressed after losing her father and numerous love interests, but in the end it seems as this was not the case. We are told about Homer missing, but we ASSUME that he went back north and we assume that Emily wound up using the arsenic for the rats. We didnt want to assume the worst possiblities but in the end, thats exactly what the story was set up for. Emily wanted to be loved so badly that she killed a man to have him as her own. She reached out to him and he said he wasnt the marrying type. I almost thought he was bi-sexual when he mentions how he likes to be in the company of men. That was ODD! There were so many ways this story couldve ended but we learn in the end that Emily went to an extreme just to have someone be with her and cure her lonliness. Faulkner is proving that assumption is something that we should stay away from because we arent aware of the full story. We are only told one persons opinion of what happened (and this is true, because we arent even told who the narrator is)