It was effective to use humor in all of the stories but only appropriate in Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky". In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" an old widow (Emily) dies and the town’s people learn horrible revelations of what Emily did. Faulkner uses humor to describe the unusual way she killed her boyfriend but kept his corpse so she could be with him. The dark form of humor in this story was not appropriate because loving a corpse who you killed is disgusting. Despite being inappropriate, the humor was effective because it matched well with the dark tone of the story.
In Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" a family attempts to fulfill their mother's wish by moving her corpse far away from the town she lived in. The dark humor in this story
In Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" a family attempts to fulfill their mother's wish by moving her corpse far away from the town she lived in. The dark humor in this story