Read the short history

A Rose for Emily

Jack Damiolix Pacheco Luciano

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Subject:

English Class (SHI-107)

Section: 06
Teacher: Edwin de Jesús Gil Javier
1- How would you describe Miss Emily?
We could describe Miss Emily as a woman of ebony skin and small
complexion, as far as her physical appearance is concerned.
However we can see a lady with an attitude, open to love at some point
in her life, we could say that she is emotionally weak until she reaches
the point of trauma and neglecting to lose what was valuable to her.
An asocial woman who was not interested in relating to everyone to the
point that she was considered crazy. But, in spite of all these secondary
issues we see an artist, a woman open to creativity who expresses her
emotions through drawing and painting, letting her art speak what she is
silent about.
2- What was Emily's attitude after her father's death?
After her father's death, Emily's attitude was quite negative and
introverted, culminating in a lonely decline.
It is clearly seen that the first thing he clung to was the denial stage,
rejecting the reality that his father was dead.
3- Why didn't Emily have to pay any taxes?
Due to a kind of deception by Colonel Sartoris who wanted to offer
charity to Miss Emily but, the excuse he invented was a story that her
father had loaned money to the municipality and that they would return it
exonerating her from paying taxes.
Emily clung to such a story and then when future generations came to
reproach her for such a fact she simply ignored them and clung to that
story. Already in future moments he simply ignored the tax letters and
because everyone knew his past and how his life had ended they did not
want to disturb him in a bad way.
4- Do you think Emily had any mental disorder? Explain your
answer.
More than a mental disorder, I consider that Emily had trauma caused by
past events that she never overcame and this affected her emotional
intelligence in such a way that it led her to perform all the acts she
performed and to act in the way she acted.
However, with this I do not eliminate the possibility that in the future and
in the long term I have developed a mental illness based on events.
5- What did the community think about Emily?
The community's opinion was simple, they thought I was crazy. At first
they did not consider it and thought that it was nothing more than a stage
of mourning due to the events, however little by little they branded her as
a careless, crazy person, even feeling sorry for her.
6- Who was Homer Barron? What happened to him?
Homer Barron was a foreman to whom the town gave the title of Emily's
fiancé (without being like this), people thought they would marry because
they left on Sunday afternoons.
What is known about this is that he disappeared praising his work,
disappointing all the people because it was not known when or where he
would go.
The last thing that was known about him is that he had returned to the
town, being witnessed by a neighbor who saw the servant let him in
through the kitchen door at night.
7- How did Emily die and who and found her body?
Emily died of an illness inside the house.
From what I could understand the body was discovered by the servant,
however it is not until the arrival of the two cousins that the appearance
of the body is mentioned.
8- Do you consider this short story to be hard to follow? Explain
your answer​.
Actually yes, I consider the story a little difficult to follow because I can't
visualize a line of events or a reason for them.
I read the story and perceive it as the random comments of many people
commenting on the life of a woman who lived in her neighborhood.
Nothing more than an explanation of what the woman was, however
because the woman herself was somewhat complex, the story trying to
explain it is.
9- What is your overall reaction to the story?
Personally I consider the story painful and sad but, quite realistic.
We observe the memory of a woman who lost what she considered her
everything and the misfortune brought her with each step she took.
It seems to me a story that must be analyzed well enough to find its
background.
10- If you had had the chance to help Emily, how would you have
done it?
I think the only thing Emily needed was to associate with someone who
made her understand that the world was not coming down on her and
that it was not all over. A little empathy and love would have been
enough in the first instance, after that the other positive emotions would
flourish in her.
My help would have been my company, understanding and affection in
his grief stage so that he could have overcome them without problems.