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A Rose for Emily (Tale Blazers)

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This is definitely a quick but good read. If I begin to go into detail, it will ruin it for you; however, it is about one Miss Emily Grierson, who is from a respectable family of which she is the sole remaining descendent. She remains shrouded in a cloud of private mystery with only the occasional entry or departure of her black servant to provide her with the basic necessites from the outside world. After a small accumulation of seemingly unconnected incidents, the story ends on a horrifying and ghastly note, which manages to leave the reader confident that he knows what the ending means, but at the same time is left hanging uncertainly. I would also like to strongly recommend _The Sound and the Fury_ to anyone who has enjoyed this or any of Faulkner's works.

I was told that A Rose for Emily was one of Faulkner's best work in a gothic story. Unfortunately, it didn't do that much for me. I didn't hate it but I didn't like it either. It just fell flat and I was bored all the way through. In an article I read they compared his work to Edgar Allen Poe how dear they). If you are looking for a quick read in the gothic area A rose for Emily is definitely not it. Check out Edagar Allen Poe's "A tell-tale heart" or " The cask of amontillado"

this book is about a very good short story on the changes of the south during a very representative period!

I just reread it in a collection of Nobel Prize winning authors--their acceptance speeches etc., and this story and "As I Lay Dying" were chosen as examples of his work. This story!!! It's such a mundane little macabre "gotcha" story, over-anthologized for high school students (along with other tired stories like "The Most Dangerous Game"). Faulkner is such an incredible writer--I'm reading Fury in the Dust right now, and his sentences--the Nobel Prize committee described them as being "as powerful as Atlantic rollers". What was he thinking when he wrote "A Rose for Emily"? Obviously not much. Read anything else by him, you'll have a better time.