“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is a story about full of mysterious and a bizarre person name Emily. Also we can call it as a gothic story because it has a combination of kinda horror, death and at times romance. There are bunch of timelines from history move forward this story. It took place after the civil war. Emily is the main character of this story, whom we can say have mental illness. At the age of young her father moved another new house in the deep south, called Jefferson.After few years her father died. Then she found a boyfriend name Homer Barron. She likes Homer Barron, who was a yankee: a constructor building sidewalks as a modern town in Jefferson. Also there were a character who was a african american slave and take care Emily and her …show more content…
Perhaps, this story shows us a great impact from civil war or that time period. Emily’s relationship with town’s people made a connection with time and history. Town’s reaction to her, tells us the story what they saw and narrator used “we” to explain every situation. No one know what she is thinking or doing, people in town judge her by observing from outside.“ Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition a duty,and a care, a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town...” that means that she was a respect person through her family. Emily has issue with society because she never pays her tax, that consider her as a burden of this town. People in town notice that she found interest in Homer. But in history this time period, people from south to go different places for their own benefit. Which turned Emily’s character a different position. Homer Barron and Emily go out and ride horses. People in town make scandle about them.They think he might be change her life in a good way. At a point, she bought arsenic also called poison. People think she is committing