Disparities of social norms and social stratification is a common theme by Southern gothic writers such as William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connell. As it can be seen in both A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a rose for Emily. The two portray interplay from generations to another which manifests itself as resistance to change in previous generations. The grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Emily in a rose for Emily are more or less the same to one another regarding to the themes in the stories. Through subservient motives as privilege, nostalgia, and irony the overarching theme of death is effectively portrayed in both texts. Death and taxes are the only two thing that are difficult to escape, they are inevitable by mankind. After Emily’s
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This is especially true because she told her family The Misfit was heading towards Florida in an attempt to persuade them to go to Tennessee. Instead, the plantation house she wanted to visit was actually in Tennessee. By venturing to a house that was not in Georgia, while, on their way to Florida, she and her family were killed by The Misfit that the grandmother said is heading towards Florida so that she could visit Tennessee. When the grandmother says to The Misfit, “I know you come from nice people!” she is using her understanding of good as merely being one’s place in society. Even though this man is going to kill her, she believes, despite this, that he is good because she has an understanding of good that defines herself as such.
In a Rose for Emily, Emily is ostracized by her society while at the same time being romanticized by it. Because her father did not think anyone was good enough for her to date, she was so lonely that she was willing to marry someone far beneath her in status. She is allowed to buy arsenic with clear malicious intentions; the pharmacist even takes the initiative to write “for rats” on it, solidifying that he was aware of her intentions. The town is willfully ignorant of the body she keeps in her house; instead of confronting it, they opt to sprinkle lime around her house to cover up the
This is especially true because she told her family The Misfit was heading towards Florida in an attempt to persuade them to go to Tennessee. Instead, the plantation house she wanted to visit was actually in Tennessee. By venturing to a house that was not in Georgia, while, on their way to Florida, she and her family were killed by The Misfit that the grandmother said is heading towards Florida so that she could visit Tennessee. When the grandmother says to The Misfit, “I know you come from nice people!” she is using her understanding of good as merely being one’s place in society. Even though this man is going to kill her, she believes, despite this, that he is good because she has an understanding of good that defines herself as such.
In a Rose for Emily, Emily is ostracized by her society while at the same time being romanticized by it. Because her father did not think anyone was good enough for her to date, she was so lonely that she was willing to marry someone far beneath her in status. She is allowed to buy arsenic with clear malicious intentions; the pharmacist even takes the initiative to write “for rats” on it, solidifying that he was aware of her intentions. The town is willfully ignorant of the body she keeps in her house; instead of confronting it, they opt to sprinkle lime around her house to cover up the