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A Rose for Emily5

a little crazy waswhen she went to that pharmacy to buy some poison. I want some poison I want the best youhave. I don t care what kind. (Faulkner, 145) This gave me the impression that she was a littlecrazy and that it was possible that she was dangerous. It also showed me that she could be verydemanding. Emily did many things that made her character seem stubborn and crazy. When shereceived the tax notices in the mail she simply through them into the garbage or mailed themright back without response. This showed us how stubborn she was. Miss Emily would manageto make her self disappear for a certain period of time. This would cause people to talk becauseno one would know where she was or what she was doing. At the end of the story when the townpeople were walking around her house they finally found what had caused her house to smell asbad as it did. It was Homer Baron. He was laid down on a bed that was in a locked room. Thiswas when they knew she was crazy because she murdered her one lover that she ever had.People in this town liked to gossip a lot about Miss Emily. When she went to buy the poisonfrom the pharmacy, the town was convinced she was going to kill herself and that she was crazy.When her father had died people called and dropped by the house to give Miss Emily theircondolences. For three years she told them that he was not dead and that he was still alive. Sherefused for her father s body to be disposed. The town thought she was crazy. One of the thingsthey talked a lot about was Miss Emily s servant that worked for her. They made racialcomments about him for example when Miss Emily s house started giving off some sort odor.People started complaining to a judge named Judge Stevens about the smell. All he could saywas It s probably a snake or a rat that Niger of hers killed in the yard One lady who complainedaccused Miss Emily of smelling bad. Miss Emily was pitied throughout the town because shewasnt married. The reason ...

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