A Rose For Emily

My first assigned blog for my English class, we are reading "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner and we are supposed to create another title for the story and explain why.

The story is kinda hard to follow and it ends up being nasty. The story is about an old woman named Emily Grierson who lives by herself in a large house except for her black servant Tobe. The story is told from the perspective of a towns person so we're only told what the town knows. No one goes in that house besides Emily and Tobe. The townspeople are very nosey of what Emily does. The townspeople think of Emily as the crazy and harmless old lady. At a young age, Emily's father never allowed her to see or go out with men. After her father's death, she started seeing a man named Homer Barron, even though he was flat out gay. One day, Emily goes out into town to buy rat poison. A few weeks later, Homer was never seen again. People thought he had just left because he was a "Yankee" and was moving on to the next job. Later, people complained about a strange smell and after nothing was done about it, a few of the men sprinkled Lyme around her house. After Homer left, Emily never left the house again forcing Tobe to go into the market. Years and years later, Emily dies. Every one shows up for her funeral and remembers her. After the funeral, a group of ladies hurried into the house to look at the one room that hasn't been opened in forty years. It looked like a bridal suite and in the bed was a rotten skeleton wearing the exact nightshirt that Emily had bought Homer. And on the pillow next to him was an indention and one of Emily's hairs. This story is pretty long and I only hit the key points in the story.

It's hard for me to think about a new title for the story. "A Bible for Emily," thats what the title should be. There were many questionable things in the story like maybe she did things with Homer when he was dead. I think she did disturbing things with the dead body. So thats why I changed rose to bible.