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How Does Shakespeare Create Suspense In A Rose For Emily

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"These violent delights have violent ends..." -From "Romeo and Juliet" made by Shakespeare. The story "A Rose for Emily" creates a lot of suspense following up to a rather disturbing ending to the story. The text creates a lot of suspenseful details, lots of imagery, and finally great detail to the setting itself. With all this information it adds up to what the plot is and the structure of the story. First, is how all the text added up to the plot of the story. From the very beginning it told about how sad Miss Emily's life was, and how her place looked and smelled. The place was old and it smelled horrible, as if something had died. Everyone guessed the smell came from rats. Later on in the story before Miss Emily's death she bought rat poison, and the people must of obviously thought her house had a rat infestation however that was not it, it was for her love. Miss Emily loved a man named Homer. He came from up north, and I can tell since the people called him a Yankee in the story. The poison would be given to Homer killing him, and Miss Emily wanted to keep him forever …show more content…

The structure of "A Rose for Emily" was to be mysterious leading to a rather suspenseful, and shrouded ending. At the beginning it started with Miss Emily's death then later on it went to flashbacks of the past of when she was still alive. It showed how her life was, and everyone pitied her thinking of how sad her life was. However when Emily found a love, everyone thought she was happy, but then no one seen her or Homer ever again. With the smell of the place in mind and the details I given in the first paragraph, the end took place at her house taking place during Miss Emily's funeral with everyone sad. However everyone point of view changed once they found Homer's dead body on a bed in a room upstairs. In summary, the structure was made to create a lot of suspense and mostly provide details that can tell what happened at the

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