Creeping Love In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

Creeping Love Dark literature seems to be one of the few under-read and risky parts of writing. William Faulkner 's writing takes these chances, which seemed to have paid off in his short story “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner 's most popular and recognized piece of work. Faulkner 's use of the grotesque, darkness and the changing times keep the reader curious and guessing, but still in shock near the end of the story. In “A Rose for Emily”, we see the story spread across five parts. The beginning explains the occurrence of our main character 's death, and how many of the towns population came to her funeral not only to see her, but the inside of her house, a “Big squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the late seventies”(Faulkner 32). This give us our first insight of how old Miss Emily was , and how long she had resided in the new town. The story continues to state that the previous mayor,Colonel Sartoris, had suspended Emily 's tax,claiming her father had …show more content…
We see them over look the fact she denied her father 's death and hoarded the body,Now, with the newly bought arsenic,and later them horrid smell. They decide she is trying to kill herself and the marriage to Homer Barron will never happen, yet out of concern they request the minister to speak with her. He does indeed speak with her, but says not a word about what she had said or what went on. We can assume the minister may have known what was going to happen to Homer Barron, yet did nothing to help. That or maybe he was just threatened? Again, their quietness only damages the situation further. Her cousins are then called and they assume the marriage is still on when a silver toilet seat arrives with Homer 's initials, Homer of which is assumed to be gone from town getting ready for the