William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” caught my attention right away. The story emotionally affected me because of her reaction when she lost her dad. It also affected me because of its disturbing and mysterious nature. One of the reasons that I think it had such a great impact on me was because I was not expecting the ending of the story at all.
Emotionally, I felt very sad for Emily because she lost her dad. She seemed to be close to her dad and it was very hard for her to handle the loss; “She told them her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body” (32). She finally let them take her father’s body after she broke down.
Emotionally, I felt very sad for Emily because she lost her dad. She seemed to be close to her dad and it was very hard for her to handle the loss; “She told them her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body” (32). She finally let them take her father’s body after she broke down.