“A Rose For Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner, by the end of the story you finally realize what all of Emily’s actions have led up to, murder. William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in 1897. At this time the Civil War was taking place, his family lost their influence and wealth during this time. William took his rags and made them into riches, by attending college at the University of Mississippi and later in his life winning the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1950. Faulkner writes “A Rose For Emily” in a dark and depressing manner that ultimately leads to death, not once, but two times. Faulkner suppresses the deaths throughout the story but at the end comes out with the news and you finally realize what has actually …show more content…
In the story “A Rose For Emily”, Emily is depicted as a lonely yet used to be a well known and privileged person by the rest of the people in the town. Although none of them make efforts to talk to her, they gossip about her and wonder about her and her belongings. When she passes away the community members are eager to learn about one room in particular in her house. Little do they know they would find the remains of her husband and where she slept alongside him all of those years. Faulkner expresses mood through words by describing some of the scenes in Emily’s house. “It smelled of dust and disuse - a close, dank smell” (85). The use of the words like dank smell and disuse are a key part in the mood that he creates. Telling us as readers that this is a unused and lonely house which Emily lives in. Another example of this gloomy mood, is described by this quotation. “What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay: … and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust” (90). This scene sounds so dark because it’s dealing with