- This story made me feel curious. It started out with Miss Emily's death and went into explaining Miss Emily's past when she was alive. This drew me in to want to discover who this Miss Emily is. The element that stood out the most to me was the ending, when they discover the body. It was a huge surprise especially with huge evidence that she had lain beside it. Even the element in between the beginning and the end, still encouraged me to read. Elements such as the details mention about the older confederate soldiers gave a feel of a place with history. The only similar situation in my life are the old mysterious lady that once lived next door by us a few years back. i remember only seeing her when she went to get the mail, but always in her house...
- The setting of the story seemed to bring a huge amount of descriptive elements of the house as well as how it takes place in the south. The authors describes the house inside using "shadows" or "dark" kinda gives me a feeling of an eerie setting as well as a stronger curiosity to who Emily is. I think the author must knew that he was drawing the reader in with a sense of wonder. It was the house and the curiosity of the people around town of the smell that came from the house, that added the more burning desire to know what was in that house, or further more, what kind of a person is Emily?
- If the "husband" Homer Barron went missing and was not seen for years, why didn't anybody get worried about him(relatives, family)? They could have had further investigation and gotten a search warrant. Then the old Confederate soldiers can bust in her house with their confederate flags and muskets as a SWAT team and find out what was going on sooner.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
SSRJ#1: Faulkner
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I agree with home Homer Barron just went missing and that was that. It said he would go out on the town at night so he had to of had made some friends. This just bothers me because when there is a lack of detail, or explanation, in certain areas I fell like there is a hole in the entire story.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, and why at the end they will mention it when he was missing for years. I also agree with Gustavo Gooey Guzman that there weren’t enough explanations of Homer. He was only mention he last meet Miss Emily and then at the end his dead body. I was confused and how do they know each other and so on.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree that setting was huge. The overall feel of the story due to the descriptive elements planted the idea early that something is not right with Miss Emily. It didn't even cross my mind until I read your blog that Homer just went missing and no one noticed, and now that I've noticed, it really is kind of like a hole in the story.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Homer did not have a family. Maybe he was a loner. Which is why he moved to place to place and stayed with Emily once in a while. Also it could be that since Homer didn't seem to have family he couldn't be missed once Emily killed him which works out for her.
ReplyDeleteI am in the middle. I totally understand what you are saying, but you have to remember this was back in the day, 1931. It was much more common to go longer periods of time without hearing from loved ones. Just think, your creepy neighbor’s husband has not been seen in awhile, are you actually going to attempt a conversation with that old nut job? Don’t think so. That was a definite point that Faulkner made, the people around town did notice but chose to keep to themselves. Just as before, with the smell from her father, they didn’t want to bother Miss Emily.
ReplyDelete3.) I also wanted to know who Emily is and why all these facts about her were so important since they weren’t in chronological order. The ending was definitely the icing on the cake but the atmosphere gave some hint of someone dying. I actually thought it was going to go into depth about how she died, like a murder mystery. That is quite true, it would seem obvious something happened to Barron since he wasn’t heard from, and the smell was a big hint.
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