A Good Man Is Hard To Find, A Rose For Emily And Job History

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Actions speak louder than words. You can never tell what is going on in a person's mind. We can only assume or guess how that person feels or thinks based on their actions. In these short stories in A Good man is Hard to Find, A Rose for Emily and Job History the author does not give us insight into the main characters thoughts or emotions. We judge these characters the same way we judge people in a society. But we can’t judge a book by its cover. We can somehow relate to these characters or understand what they are going through if we were in their shoes. To write a short story from a third person omniscient, we have to embody their thoughts, ideas and emotions without these elements in a short story, there are no value or morals in A Good …show more content…

She doesn’t get out much or adapt to a society that has been changing over the years. She a trapped soul that is lost in her own body. Throughout the story Emily isn’t a type of woman who is married, had kids or grandkids, who adapts to society, but still had her old spunk in her, the woman who gets out to get to know her neighborhood she lives in. She a closed book waiting to be read but no one wants to read the book because it is a 600 page book. But everyone in Emily neighborhood was so quick to judge here based off of Emily actions. But we don’t know why Emily was the way she was or why she did what she did. Emily is like any woman or girl who feel insecure or not sure how she feels and is just confused on how to handle things going on in her life. Emily didn’t live the life like any other woman in her town. Being in the situation she was in was, what choices would you make? There are some things we can’t explain like why Emily kill Homer Barron and why she kept her father's corpse before letting anyone know that he was dead. The actions and the things are the way we felt towards Emily we felt sympathy toward her also felt disgusted by what she did. But a woman who is trapped and doesn’t want to feel alone what else can she do. There is an emptiness that a lot of woman faces during their life for example not having a father figure in their life …show more content…

She takes this road trip with her son and his family to Florida. She doesn’t want to go to Florida because there a guy on the loose who is a murderer. She not like the grandmother you would expect in the story. We get the grandmother perspective in the story but really get where she came from and how she grew up because that tells a lot about a person and how they act. But the grandmother doesn’t seem or like a grandmother she feels like she young and get whatever she wants. She shows no remorse or emotion when her son and his family was killed. If someone close to you was murder. But she woman who comes from being a lady that she has to keep up with. To her is like any woman were image is something that we have to keep up with. Image is the way that shapes us as human and tells you about a person by the way they carry themselves. The grandmother was selfish from the beginning of the story until the end. There are people in this world who are selfish and care about themselves and nobody else. The emotion or thoughts that perspective is the grandmother is a lady. There is no way of embodying the grandmother emotions or thoughts. But the one person that some people do feel some way toward is her son who doesn’t say much in the story or we don’t see is perspective on things. Author leaves the son out of having his thoughts shared with the reader is to see how he is treated by his mother and