Creepy. Creepy. Creepy.
First of all, I wonder where authors get ideas like these to write stories about old women who sleep with corpses. Nonetheless...that freaks me out. Second of all, I do not enjoy stories or movies that contain my name. Especially two-thirds of my name, such as this one and the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Thanks a lot William Faulkner.
Miss Emily is a very peculiar character. She goes in and out of society basically doing whatever she wants. Her father must be of some importance in the town because she is not required to pay taxes because of him. She will go for months shut up in her house with just the servant Tobe, and then all the sudden she decides to give china painting lessons. Miss Emily seems to have some sort of mental handicap that leads her into seclusion away from common societial practices.
Then comes Homer Barron who "wasn't a marrying man because he liked to drink with boys." I didn't actually catch that for a while, but I found it to be incredibly interesting. Miss Emily fell in love with him in some crazy way of hers and kept him in seclusion in her house. When she went to the druggist, she acquired arsenic. This and the fact that there was a rotten smell from her house for weeks leads the reader to believe she poisoned Homer and she has a thing for dead people [she kept her father in her house after he passed for quite a while too]. My guess is that Homer told Emily he would not marry her, so in her derranged way, she killed him so that he would be with her forever, in the physical sense at least. All I hope is that she literally only slept with him and not much more...
First of all, I wonder where authors get ideas like these to write stories about old women who sleep with corpses. Nonetheless...that freaks me out. Second of all, I do not enjoy stories or movies that contain my name. Especially two-thirds of my name, such as this one and the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Thanks a lot William Faulkner.
Miss Emily is a very peculiar character. She goes in and out of society basically doing whatever she wants. Her father must be of some importance in the town because she is not required to pay taxes because of him. She will go for months shut up in her house with just the servant Tobe, and then all the sudden she decides to give china painting lessons. Miss Emily seems to have some sort of mental handicap that leads her into seclusion away from common societial practices.
Then comes Homer Barron who "wasn't a marrying man because he liked to drink with boys." I didn't actually catch that for a while, but I found it to be incredibly interesting. Miss Emily fell in love with him in some crazy way of hers and kept him in seclusion in her house. When she went to the druggist, she acquired arsenic. This and the fact that there was a rotten smell from her house for weeks leads the reader to believe she poisoned Homer and she has a thing for dead people [she kept her father in her house after he passed for quite a while too]. My guess is that Homer told Emily he would not marry her, so in her derranged way, she killed him so that he would be with her forever, in the physical sense at least. All I hope is that she literally only slept with him and not much more...
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