A Rose for Emily

Throughout the Eighteen Years of my life I read many interesting short stories. Some stories where more eye catching than others. Furthermore “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner and “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka were not on the top of my list. In my opinion, the stories were eye catching because of how the author made its characters react and respond toward the suspense and eeriness in certain parts of the climax of the stories. For example, in “A Rose For Emily” the ladies of the community said “We did not say she was crazy then. We believed that she had to do that” (Faulkner 81) These two lines were said about Emily after the people found out about the death of Emily’s father and they knew that she was keeping his body inside of her house because she could not let go of her father. The eeriness about this is that they did not think it was weird at all. Furthermore, these two stories look to me just like every other story that I have read from other authors. Nevertheless, when I started to look into the concepts and ironies, the stories reveal an aspect about how the characters progress and why do they progress a certain way throughout the story. On the other hand, not only did I start to create an interest towards them, but I caught how they were alike in many unusual aspects. “A Rose For Emily” and “Metamorphosis” develop a climax similar to one another because they both have unpredictable events, rare responses of those events, a theme that connects theme, and a twist to an unpredictable endings.

To begin with, the aspect that caught my attention was how both of the authors, Faulkner and Kafka gave the passages an unpredictable events and another meaning to the characters. In “A Rose For Emily” Faulkner said “When her ...

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...ore descriptive than Emily’s. Kafka described as Gregor’s death was peacefully even though he had died of starvation. Furthermore Kafka stated how Mr. Samsa took the death of his son. Mr. Samsa said “Well, now we can thank God” This not only does it describe them being happy that Gregor is dead but it describes the relief that the fell in their lives after Gregor’s transformation.

To conclude, I am happy I looked deeper into these two stories. They gave me a reality check and showed me that things do not always turn out to be how one wants it and that life always brings surprises to shake things up in our lives. I did not like the ending of the story of the “Metamorphosis” by Kafka because I would of liked to see him getting revenge on those who did not treat him the way they should of, but that too surprised me that the story did not turn out to end like that.