American Literature: "A Rose for Emily" Insight: "A Rose for Emily" Insight From your first-draft and second-draft reading, you jotted down questions, connections, ideas, and more that y...
The assignment is to pick an idea or question from your reading bookmark or second draft and really go in depth to discover and disclose the real information behind the comment.
To be fair, I did not really follow these directions. I wrote down the events in order to see the time frame these events fell under.
However, off the top of my mind, One thing I want to go a little further in depth on would be in the comment made by the author about her rather loose minded aunt. "People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last," (519). I believe the reason he put this comment in the story, was so that a little doubt would linger in your mind as you read. Even as you read, you would see ulterior motives that may or may not be present. The author cares to mention the relationship between her father and Miss Emily in the story as well, though perhaps not the way you'd normally see a father-daughter relationship. "Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the forefront, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip..."(519 to 520). So when Miss Emily dies, and they have firmly buried her, the curious townsfolk decide to break open the enclosed upstairs. In the bed they find her 'boyfriend' Homer, the gay construction foreman, and a single silver hair on the indented pillow next to his long dead body.
I believe Miss Emily was as crazy as her great-aunt. And the body is the dead cold truth.
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