Southern Gothic
When I learned this story was Southern Gothic I became interested in learning more about it. I liked how the writers incorporated the southern culture with morbid and grotesque things. After I learned that A Rose for Emily was a Southern Gothic I read it again and saw many things that jumped out at me that were very southern and gothic. In A Rose for Emily the story starts off by saying “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”. This first sentence shows that this story is Southern Gothic. It shows that is gothic by saying “When Miss Emily died”. Also it shows it is southern by saying “the whole town went to her funeral, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of the house”. This shows that this town is small and rural which is how most southern towns are. Also it shows that it is southern because the women only went because they wanted to see the inside of Miss Emily’s house. Another example of gothic I found is when Emily’s father died she acted like it didn’t happen. When everyone came to give their condolences Emily met them at the door with no trace of grief on her face. Finally after three days of the minister and doctor trying to persuade her to dispose of the body Emily finally gave in and let them bury him. My favorite part of the story, beside the end, was when Emily went to the druggist and asked for some poison. To me this part of the story starts to show Emily’s creepy ways and leads up to the ending. The ending shows the obvious reason why the story is gothic. They find Homer Barron lying in the bed dead and had been dead for a long time. The creepiest part to me is when they find a gray hair laying beside him.
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