Mrs. Emily's House: A Short Story

Sarah loved her brother dearly. He was in her mind and thoughts most hours of every day. She so desperately wanted to get back to the apartment where that she could find him alive. She was only too late. His body reeked and had a terrible stench. Edouard Tezac said, “There was this smell...The smell of something rotten, putrid. Then my father slowly

Section II – Again in section II, the story teller refers to the protagonist as “She.” The narrator again goes back in time by sharing the time when Miss Emily’s house developed an ugly odor and four men had to sneak in to Miss Emily’s yard to sprinkle lime, so that the nasty smell would go away.

Some of the townspeople considered this as an inappropriate match for her and said, “That even grief could not cause a real lady to forget oblesse oblige.” Emily could not stand loosing anyone else and murdered Homer. She had missed so many chances of marrying anyone because of her father, so the only resort she had left was to kill homer and hang on to him forever before he would leave her life like everyone else. Once Emily had passed away, the townspeople went inside her house and saw that Homer’s body was there in the bed. Astonishingly they saw “the second pillow (had an) indention of a head… and saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” Faulkner had described Emily’s hair as iron-gray so it could be assumed that Emily had been lying next to homer all this time.

With this discovery, Emily knew she could never have him and could not bear the thought of another man that she loved leaving her. This must have been the breaking point for her. Emily was determined not to let another man leave her for the third time. Therefore she purchased the arsenic so she could be with him forever. The last person to see Homer was a neighbor as the Negro man was admitting him in at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. Again, Emily submerged herself into the familiar calm of isolation until her death. After her funeral, the narrator (the town) paints the picture of their discovery in the room above the stairs. A room in which no one had seen in for forty years. “The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him…. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted

The house had an unusual smell to it that Bryan couldn’t quite his finger on it. Miguel had never minded any of the people in the village had always believed the story ever since they were a young child, but there showed no evidence of this so called “Witch”. old lady on the corner of Babylan St. because he always knew it was just a folktale,so they wouldn’t go into a stranger 's house.

“Like Miss Emily it stands “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay” alone amidst alien surroundings. When the town complains about the smell emanating from the house, the judge equates house and woman: “Will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” Miss Emily becomes a fallen woman where she lived in a house that had “once been white… set on what had once been our most select street…lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gasoline pumps an eyesore among eyesores.” The house, like Miss Emily, has fallen from purity and like Miss Emily it is an eyesore, for

Spreading blood all over there walls and doors, one women threw a chicken’s head to represent the aunt. When the villagers were in the house the destroyed everything in it; the kitchen was filled with shatter glasses from the bowls and throwing the pots. The women next door entered their house with a broom swiping the negative dust above Kingston’s families head giving those negative spirts and every one of the villagers looking down upon Kingston’s family. When leaving their house, the villagers made sure that they took sugar and oranges and rubbed it upon the selves; it made sure they weren’t cursed from the disgrace the family had. Some stole the rest of the bowls and clothes that were not broken or torn. It was time for the baby to arrive and the no name women gave birth to her new born baby in a pit. Kingston’s remembers the next morning going to the family well noticing that it was plugged and noticed that the aunt had killed herself and her newborn baby in the family well. Making sure that Maxine Kingston doesn’t say a word to her father, her mother repeats again to her to not say a word to her father or to

1. Discuss the ways in which Faulkner uses Miss Emily 's house as a symbol and/or metaphor both her character 's personality and circumstances and for the narrative 's broader themes. What does the description of Emily 's house—at the beginning of the story, particularly, but also throughout the narrative—reveal about her character? About the story 's historical setting? About the narrative 's central concerns?

The cabin was filled with a musty scent and old people odor. The first night went

The story in non-chronological order because it tells you what will happen at the end, but catch you by surprise on how the event actually occurs. In the story it tells us when Emily decides to go buy rat-poison and the community immediately starts to talk about her saying that “she will kill herself.” The community talking about this foreshadows the event of Emily’s death towards the end of the story.

One day, as Scarlett sat alone in the living room, she heard a knock at the door. She wondered who it could be. Her husband was at work and she didn't know anybody else, having just moved to town. She answered the door and was surprised to see her husband. Apparently, he had finished all the work for the day and was free to leave early. He must've been working hard because he gave off a horrible smell.

Which came to surprise since Mrs.Watson’s wasn’t very far, it would have taken less than five minutes if it wasn’t for the dreadful weather. Not only was that surprising but, the back door was unlocked. It was a blessing that it was because it would only cause more time to be wasted. They crossed the threshold, bringing in the blistering cold with them. The house’s walls were beautifully layered with flower print designs, and had a furry yellowish carpet which was extremely nice on Huck’s feet as he took off his shoes, though the other’s shoes remained on. The house had countless antiques and art paintings that were held up along the walls. The warm scent of coffee and some indistinguishable sweet aroma filled the

The leather furniture was cracked, and if the chairs were sat upon dust rose about one's thighs. The house seemed to be submerged in shadows as if it also refused to admit the light of the future. It had once been part of the most stylish street in town. Now it was surrounded with the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps. It had obviously become an eyesore compared to once when it had been so beautiful.

All I want in this worlds is for Dan to be happy. For him not to feel the despair. He hasn’t talked to me in two years, and I miss him everyday. Why couldn’t I be there for him? Why couldn’t I see the signs? They were so obvious….I just want another chance!

“A Rose for Emily” follows the townspeople’s observation of Emily and her family after her death. The townspeople gather in her house for her funeral and share stories of her life. Her house is very much like herself. The readers learn about Emily through the townspeople, which is only so much because of her closed off nature. Emily, just like her house, can be seen by everyone, but what is happening on the interior is unknown. She never exits her home and no one, except her servant who comes and goes every day, visits the home. The town, fill with nosy people, only attended the funeral in order to get a glimpse into Emily’s secretive life. They explore her house, trying to uncover the truth as to what her life was truly like. In the