A Rose for Emily

     I really did not enjoy the story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner because of the way the story was organized. It did not go in any sort of logical order. Also, much of the story was not explained. The reader has no idea if Emily and Homer Barron were really married. We also don't know if Emily killed Homer. In this story, there seemed to be situational irony. This is when what is expected is different than what actually happens. When Emily purchased the arsenic, I assumed she was going to kill herself. The whole story up to that point seemed gloomy and like she was always sad."'I want some poison, she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper's face out to look" (286). This dark, depressing description of Emily made me think the author was using foreshadowing. I thought he was describing her in such an awful way to show why she would want to kill herself. Maybe she did kill herself, because yet again the author does not really tell the reader. However it seems as though she really did die from old age and I was wrong in both instances.