A Romance To Die For “ A Rose for Emily” a short story written by William Faulkner, presents a portrait of a lonely woman; Emily, who succumbs to mental illness. It is also a gothic story, in the sense of a genre of fiction presenting dark, mysterious, terrifying events that take place in a gloomy or ghostly setting. The manner in which dust covers the objects (and people) in Emily’s archaic home represents the obscuring of past events. Unlike decay, which changes and erodes what exists, dust covers but does not ruin. It is Faulkner’s use of dust imagery that provides the key to understanding the role of the past and the manner in which it lingers in the present in “A Rose for Emily.”
Roughly forty years after the townspeople assumed that
Roughly forty years after the townspeople assumed that