A Rose for Emily

A Read Along

I love how Faulkner start off morbid. It feels as if he is describing something that had been dying for, what I can assume by the full capitalization of WHEN, what feels like forever. 

A monument? The men come to pay their respects to a fallen monument. maily must have been a very old, and respected woman. 

I do not like the women. They show up just to see what her house looked like? Assuming Emily is a recluse, I get the curiosity, but then after they see the house all they do is cause drama, and whit a dead woman too. Do these women have no shame?

Emily seems to begin to not seem like she was a respected woman.No one knew what her house looked like, and she seems to have the beginning stages of hording. 

Who describes a woman as an obligation. If anything, a woman should be described as a necessity, if someone shall swing that way. 

I just do not like the idea that because of what your father did, it completely dictates how you will be treated. This reminds me of the character Caroline on the television show 2 Broke Girls whose father ran a ponzi scheme and cause her to loose all her wealth and receive a terrible reputation. 

Whoops! Colonel Santoris (Almost typed Sanders) is not the father (SOME ONE CALL JERRY SPRINGER) hes just a man who Emily's father helped. 

"It smelled of dust and disuse" I really enjoy that line. Not the whole idea of something smelling of dust, but the idea of something smelling of disuse. Its like an abstract smell, like a smell that isn't something you can pin point, but it gives you a felling. I really enjoy the phrase "They smell of desperation" -2 Broke Girls

Man, Faulkner is viscous to women. Describing a larger woman as if she a dead body soaking in water, which for all you that do not understand and are still innocent, is that this woman looks bloated. 

Im about done reading for the night, but I wanted to end describing the comparison of Emily to the angels in stain glass windows. Its such an interesting idea,comparing a sick woman to angels that looked "sort of tragic and serine" I really enjoy this comparison, and how Faulkner used a church, a place to where in those times people go to play for health as medical technology isn't very developed.