A Rose For Emily Southern Gothic Essay

What is a Southern Gothic novel, some people say its a ghost story,mysterious or fiction events, other says it it about supernatural element. Most of these topics would go along with William Faulkner's short story of “A Rose for Emily.” Reasons this short story would be a Southern Gothic is because most of the story revolves around many deaths. A prime example of this is that Miss Emily is portrayed as a poor old lady struggling with a mental illness from the losses that she had suffered, which in return has caused her to do some pretty bad things. The people of the town respected her greatly, they thought she was the “fallen monument” (citehere) of the town, but unfortunately they never truly knew how ill she really was until it was too

But as the narrator flashed back to the present in the novel she ended up being just an old lady living in a crumbling house with a mental disorder that everyone thought they could explain. In the novel it talked about her house, it talked about it being, “stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.”(cite here) The house in this example is Southern Gothic because the house is the another example of how far Miss Emily has lost herself. It shows how much of herself she has let go of reality and just has isolated herself in her own little world that people can see but never truly can touch or know what is going on, on the other side. She was a mysterious women that everyone thought was

In the end the narrator flashes back to where she killed her husband, so this big secret that she has been trying to keep this whole time is revealed. In the novel it says, “The mani himself lay in the bed.” ( cite here) as well as “the body had apparently once laid in the attitude of an embrace, but now long sleep outlasts love, that conquers even a grimmance of love, had cuckolded him.” (cite here). In this moment I have no doubt that this is a example of Southern Gothic writing because it has murder as the main theme of this