People are often drawn to the dark and creepy and many of my friends have that innate attraction. The short story “A Rose for Emily” offers creepiness that many stories hope to achieve. The story itself is quite creepy as it involves a spinster who kills a man and leaves the body in her bed, sleeping with it every night. This is enhanced through the story’s plot, the order in which the story is told; by telling the story out of order excitement is built up as the reader begins to put the pieces of the story together. There is also a sense of dramatic irony because the speakers, the townspeople, who are telling the story, believe Emily to be strange and possibly crazy but they don’t believe her to be a killer, but they give the reader the clues that lead them to the assumption that Emily was somehow responsible for Homer’s disappearance. Even with the knowledge that Emily was somehow responsible for Homer’s disappearance there is still a huge shock factor at the end of the story when the body is discovered. It is a truly captivating and shocking story that is a very entertaining story to read.
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