Grotesque In A Rose For Emily

“Rose for Emily” evokes the term Southern gothic and grotesque. She is deeply admired by the town that places her on a pedestal and sees her as “a tradition, duty “- fallen monument.” She does not only poisons and kills her lover, Homer Barron, but she keeps his rooting corpse in her bedroom and slept with her dead lover over many years. Emily must have slept with her dead lover: long enough for the town’s people to find “a long strand of gray hair “laying on the pillow next to what was left of Homer Barron, rotted beneath what was left of the night shirt” and displaying a “profound and fleshless grin.” Two years after her father died, and short time after her lover disappeared from her life. Any how the stink got stronger and complaints were made, but the authorities didn’t want to confront her about the

He left her with nothing but the house, but no money. She refused to admit it for three hold days. The town didn’t thinks she was “crazy then,” but assumed that she just didn’t want to let go of her dad. Her father had forbidden her to date socially, or at least the community thinks so. ”None of the men were quite good enough for Miss. Emily and such. She was so terribly desperate for human love that she murdered Homer and clanged to his dead body. Emily beings dating Homer Barron, who is in town on a sidewalk- building project. He was last seen entering Miss Emily’s house. Emily rarely leaves her home after, that, except for a period of half a dozen years when she gives painting lessons. She gains weight; she eventually dies in a down stairs bedroom that hasn’t seen the light of day in many years. The story cycles to the being where it start at her funeral. Tobe, Miss Emily servant, he let in the town women and then leaves threw the back door forever. After the funeral and Emily is buried the town’s people go upstairs to break into a room that they know has closed for forty