Suspense In A Rose For Emily

“A Rose for Emily” is not the typical short story one might read. It contains many different features throughout the story, one being the way the terror and suspense starts from the beginning. Another feature the story has to make it unique is the vivid details. The details also start from the beginning of the story. Another feature is the ending. It is not the ending I expected from the when I first started reading. What makes “A Rose for Emily” the best short story is how all the unique features, such as the vivid details and suspense of the story, start from the beginning and the ending is unpredictable due to the twists of the story. “A Rose for Emily” has suspense just like any other short story may have, but it’s different. The suspense …show more content…
The details are seen from the beginning of the story and are carried on throughout it. The vivid details are unimaginable and dark. Some of the dark, vivid words are “a decaying mansion,” “a corpse,” and “necrophilia.” The power of these words makes the story interesting. The other short stories do not use as deep dark details that are so vivid throughout the story and that is another feature that makes “A Rose for Emily” the best. Though “A Rose for Emily” is a short story, the ending is still unique. The ending is very different than what I thought when I first started reading it. In other short stories, the ending is predictable, but in “A Rose for Emily,” the plot twists change the prediction of the ending. When the ending is not what is expected, that is was makes a story so good and the best. “A Rose for Emily” is a different type of story. The different features throughout the story make it unique and the best short story. When the suspense starts from the beginning, it makes the ending even more exciting; but it is not predictable in this story. The vivid details make the short story interesting and curious about the ending. With the unique features in the short story “A Rose for Emily,” it is the best