Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' - SPOILER I've just finished…
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Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' - SPOILER
I've just finished this short story from Faulkner and I must say - mixed emotions.
I enjoyed most of the work up until the very end, where the reader realises>!that she killed Homer, the man who did not marry her because he was most probably gay. We realise this in the last scene at her funeral when they finally open a room and find his corpse, which she has obviously been cuddling occasionally (as seen in the indent in the pillow and the hair strand). !<
Now for me, I don't know, I was not shocked by this, and it has me wondering - has this become some kind of trope in modern literature / story telling / film that I saw it coming? I can totally imagine that this imagery shocked the hell out of people back when it was published in 1930 when it was published.
Just for interest sake, what other works follow this (if I may claim it to be) "trope"? >!Where someone kills their loved one and then keeps the corpse as a way to cope with it - something like that. !<
I'm thinking of course about Hitchock's Psycho for example.
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I've just finished this short story from Faulkner and I must say - mixed emotions.
I enjoyed most of the work up until the very end, where the reader realises>!that she killed Homer, the man who did not marry her because he was most probably gay. We realise this in the last scene at her funeral when they finally open a room and find his corpse, which she has obviously been cuddling occasionally (as seen in the indent in the pillow and the hair strand). !<
Now for me, I don't know, I was not shocked by this, and it has me wondering - has this become some kind of trope in modern literature / story telling / film that I saw it coming? I can totally imagine that this imagery shocked the hell out of people back when it was published in 1930 when it was published.
Just for interest sake, what other works follow this (if I may claim it to be) "trope"? >!Where someone kills their loved one and then keeps the corpse as a way to cope with it - something like that. !<
I'm thinking of course about Hitchock's Psycho for example.
#entertainment
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