"A Rose for Emily"

"A Rose for Emily" is an interesting short story written by William Faulkner. It is split up into five chapters, and describes the life of Emily. It seems Emily is a southern belle who is very needy. She lives in Mississippi, and is dependant on her Father for many things, for instance forgiving her taxes.

The story is sort of a flashback; it starts at her death and then talks about her life. It seems that Emily gets very desperate to find a man to court her after her fathers death. When her boyfriend does not propose to her, it is implied that she kills him with arsenic.

Emily make belives her fairytale by getting her boyfriend a suit and other things for a wedding. When she dies, the townspeople enter her home and find, in a hidden room, Homer's body, along side where she would have slept since his death.

This story is interesting and seems like it is of a woman who is desperate and a bit mentally unstable. The short story was not very short, written in a different perspective and was written in English that seemed very modern by 1930's standards.