Saturday, April 16, 2011
Sleeping with a Dead Person?...Really?
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner was a little too weird for me. I think the people of the town are absolutely crazy for giving Mrs.Grierson excuses for her house stinking and if I were one of them then I would want to know what was going on. It was pretty obvious what was occurring and her house should have been inspected as soon as one person noticed the horrific smell. There was a reason she did not want anyone going near her house of coming in and I don't see how the people didn't catch on sooner. The fact that she kept the man in a room and bought him stuff just like a living and normal person freaks me out. I do not understand how a person can think the way she did and she had something seriously wrong with her. When a woman starts sleeping in the same bed as a dead man then she needs serious help and I hope see got it.
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The point of the story wasn't that Emily was sleeping with a dead man, it was about her insanity, so there was something wrong with her. The story was about a sheltered girl, who lost her father who closely watched and codled her until they day he died. Because Emily's dad had not let her grow up, when he died she didn't know how to live alone. When she met homer, she became very attached, like she did with her father, and didn't want him to go. When he announced that he was leaving and there was nothing she could do about it, she did the only thing that she though she could do, she killed him. The reason she slept with him was because she wanted to keep him alive in her mind, and not accept he was dead even though she killed him. The reason no one confronted her about the smell of her house was because of respect that most men had for women back then. Like it was said in the story by Judge Stevens "Will you accuse a woman to her face of smelling bad?" There is more to this story than sleeping with dead people, and bad smells; there is more meaning than that in this story.
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