What Is A Rose For Emily Southern Gothic

Skyler Landt Mr. Hemesath English 12 11 April 2024 Southern Gothic Essay It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. Throughout the short story, “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, a Southern Gothic, you can see the main character isn’t quite normal. The short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is about the life of a woman named Emily, who was a young rich woman, until her father passed away. She refused to accept that he had passed away and told everyone that he was still alive. She finds a lover and poisons him, but everyone in town just thought that he had left town and they had separated. Her house has a weird smell around it and everyone complains about it to the judge, hoping he will do something

It appears in the story because it shows that Miss Emily is different than everyone else that is in the town, she doesn’t leave her house and she’s rarely seen, she is occasionally seen in the windows. “After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temperament to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man--a young man then--going in and out with a market basket”(Faulkner 2). The author is saying that after the passing of her father, she was rarely seen outside of her house, and then after her significant other left, people noticed that she was hardly even seen even when she was inside her house, a few times there were a few ladies that had the decency to call her and check up on her, but when they called there was never an answer. The only sign of life that was seen in/outside of her house was the negro who was always going in and out with a market basket. Overall, this shows the author using the outside Southern Gothic element throughout the short story and how it was