Blog Assignment #2 - Faulkner

In the story " A Rose For Emily " by William Faulkner he writes about a woman named Emily who went through a hard life. The story is told from the point of view of the townspeople and their reactions to the strange lifestyle to Emily lived. The story was more told from ending to beginning and had minor parts where the narrator briefly came back into the present day of the story. The whole point of view of the story I believe was a biography about Emily's life. The narrator captured every detail about Emily from her normal living lifestyle till her very last days from what it seemed to believe she was becoming insane. From my own experiences I know the feeling of losing family and having to basically start all over without that one specific person who seemed to be there for you anytime you needed them. " Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it. " (Faulkner) I believe that quote from the story really defined the townspeople as the narrators acting as just a local neighbor of Emily or the towns police department. I also believe that the quote shows the type of respect that they had for Emily waiting for her to be buried before fully investigating the house that was basically on lockdown for 40 years. I would treat this story as a horror story almost, kind of something you would watch on the television hooked on the Halloween movies with Michael Myers. This story had every reason to be known as a horror story from Emily going insane to the brutal murder of Homer and the vivid detail of his body decade in the locked upstairs room of Emily's house. William Faulkner just like many other authors of his time were suffering from either depression or other types of emotional problems and expressed his true feelings through this story.