Running Commentary "A Rose For Emily"

• The story starts at the end.
• She is a lonely person.
• Nobody has seen the house in more than ten years.
• Emily was not married by the time she dies.
• The house is on animportant street, it is big, but it has not been well taken care of.
• They consider women as less, they consider them as an inferior creature. "only a woman could have believed it" (3)
• It is avery racist time. "no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an Apron" (3)
• She is described as a "small, fat woman in black" (6)
• She was very persistent and firm in her ideathat she had "no taxes in Jefferson" (10)
• "'Just as if a man-any man-could keep a kitchen properly'" (16) The author is very stereotypical.
• "'It's probably just a snake or a rat thatnigger of hers killed in the yard'" (20) Maybe he is the one that killed homer as a favour to Emily.
• Neighbours fixed the bad smell with lime.
• "Miss Emily met them at the door, dressedas usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead." (27) She denies the death of her father, but everybody knew about it.
• Miss Emily met HomerBarron when he was paving her the sidewalks. The author describes him as a 'big, dark, ready man'. (30)
• She was very sure of what she wanted, "'I want Arsenic'" (39) Why didn't she send herservant for it? Why should she need arsenic?
• Everyone in town thought she would "kill herself" (41) If she would be able to kill herself, why shouldn't she be able to kill anybody else?
•The story says that the last time that anybody saw Homer was when the "Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening". (46) So the last person with him was the Negro.
• Theauthor emphasizes her "gray head" (53) when he describes her corpse.
• When they found Homer's body, they see an "iron-gray hair" (60) beside the corpse, we suppose she slept with it.