"A Rose for Emily"

In the "Rose for Emily", the story is told through the perspective of the towns people. It seems almost obvious that they would not nearly be as interested in her if she had appeared to be in their standard of normal, but instead they loved to talk about the negative things that occured in her life. Even when she began to date Homer, they talked about it because it grief, " could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige." Through the readings of the text, I highly doubt that Miss Emily was African-American. Not only did she have a very high standard for herself, as well as the towns people thought that she used to have a high standard, but they openly refer to other African Americans in the story as almost side objects. But for the town, Emily is a source of gossip, something to talk about. If she was anything more than the pharmacist wouldn't have simply looked away when she was so persistant upon the arsenic. I think that the way that the story is told in jumbled up pieces because it is told through the perspective of the townspeople and each story is thrown in as it is remembered. That also makes each story much more theatrical, as it grows with each tongue making it more and more of a tale than just a story of a person. It almost seems inferred that Miss Rose may have poisoned Homer and then lay next to his deceased body. It certainly comes off as someone who is living through the delusions of her every day life with something that is sincerely morbid. In her mind her actions were not sick, she loved him, or maybe the idea of him and was unable to let that go. All through her life Miss Rose was able to keep people talking and making her life a spectacle, and now even in her death she hasn't failed by giving them something to carry on and talk about the mystery of what had happened for years to come.