The arrangement of events creates more suspense for the reader and therefore the piece is more enjoyable to read. The story begins with the death of Emily, whereas chronologically, she dies near the very end. The death of Emily being the opening event sets a gothic tone. It also gives the reader the knowledge that she will be end up dead later on in the story. It tells that the coming events will lead to her death. The reader will assume that perhaps something bad will happen to cause her death. But in chronological order, the death of Emily is a resolution. The very placing of Emily’s death at the be

Finally, Emily passes away at the age of 74. . This is not the climax of the story, the reader already expects her to die. Emily leaves a legacy of unspoken tragedy, failure, and oppression.. Her death is not a resolution, but a simple result of her tragic life. She is finally at peace. Chronologically, this is the turning point of the story. This will open the doors for the reader to get answers about her strange seclusion.

ginning sets the macabre tone and establishes the sense of foreboding in the reader. The readers think the coming events will be sinister ones that lead to Emily’s death. In my opinion she was a weed in the town’s garden so to speak. It doesn’t give the reader bad feelings exactly, but it is a tragic ending.

Emily’s killing of Homer is the strange demonstration of all the ravaging feelings she kept bottled up. Emily would dream and hope, while constantly fighting her own anger and conflictions. Her normal aspirations for a husband and family are crushed early on by her father as he turned all the men away. He selfishly subdued and oppressed her as nothing more than a housekeeper. Emily kept all her rage, injustice, regret, and depression bottled up. Her desperate yearnings for a woman’s life caused her to commit sin with Homer. She only wants to love and be loved. When this attempt falls apart, it is horrible for her. She struggles with herself and her sins and her yearnings; in the end she kills Homer and continues to cherish him. He remains the only relic of her life, and she clings to it. In a way, this is how she tries to personally atone for her sings. Emily refused to modernize herself. She tries atoning for her sins by not moving forward or getting over Homer. She tortures herself. Emily remains a recluse and does not allow herself another attempt at the life she desperately wants. She clings to her painful past for all her life, never once expelling her rampant feelings of true hope, warm aspirations, real love, extreme oppression, cold abandonment, raging fury, and cold, painful regret.

The next event is the town’s reaction to Homer and Emily. At first the town is happy for Emily and finally relieved that she is carrying on with her life.. The story speaks of how the town thinks of Emily, “Thus she passed from generation to generation—dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.” But soon after realizing that the two are lovers and not engaged, the town is worried. After sending a minister, they send for Emily’s cousins. Emily’s cousins stay with her, but Emily does not reach out or connect with them.. Perhaps Emily’s failure in connecting with them is that she is ashamed of her sins (adultery) and that she is repressing her feelings of oppression, depression, lost hope, crushed dreams, and shame and pushing her family away. Emily surprises the reader by buying poisonous arsenic one day, refusing to say what the arsenic is for. This causes the reader to speculate that she is so unhappy that she’ll try to kill herself. This important foreshadowing contributes to the suspense.

Homer Barron is introduced next. He is the new man in Emily’s life. He is a Northerner and a construction foreman, meaning totally new and different change for Emily.. His strangeness further reveals E

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