"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner was first published in 1930 in an issue of The Forum, a literary magazine. It has since been published in numerous collections, and is used for many high school English courses. It is a great tale of people ignoring many, many danger signs of what has been going on in the house of Emily Grierson. She is the last remaining member of a family held in high regard...
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner was first published in 1930 in an issue of The Forum, a literary magazine. It has since been published in numerous collections, and is used for many high school English courses. It is a great tale of people ignoring many, many danger signs of what has been going on in the house of Emily Grierson. She is the last remaining member of a family held in high regard in her Southern town. Emily did not acknowledge her father's death for three days. She had been very sheltered by him; she was not allowed to date, even though at the time she was thirty years old. After her father's death she is attracted to a Northern man traveling through town, who informs his friends that he is not the marrying kind. Emily buys a silver toiletry set, which is assumed to be an engagement present for Homer, the man she loves. She also buys enough arsenic to kill an elephant. Her house presently begins to emit a horrible smell, but rather than actually investigate a possible death, the aldermen spread lime around the front yard. Forty years later Emily dies. Homer's skeleton is found in a bed in her house, with one of Emily's "iron-gray" hairs on the next pillow. She has apparently been sleeping next to the decomposing corpse of the man who rejected her until her death, as the gray color of the hair indicates.
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