"When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: 'For rats.'" (p.286)
This story was by far the creepiest for me. I think one of the important literary terms applied here is the narrator. Here, I viewed the story as having multiple narrators. The speaker was not a single person, but Miss Emily's community as a whole, sort of all chiming in with memories of her. That is also why the structure is confusing/out of chronological order. Because of this, the story was really difficult for me to read, but the gist was clear.
The biggest "creepiness" factor I noticed was not all that harmful inandofitself- that Miss Emily was resistant to change. However the lengths she went to to ensure this was a bit drastic. First, one of the narrators mentions that she kept her father's body for days. "She told thm that her father was not dead. She did that for threedays, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." Again, at the end, it is revealed that Homer, Emily's lover, has been dead for some time - most likely by Emily's doing since she didn't want him to leave. With the detail of "a long strand of iron-gray hair," the separated structure of multiple speakers creates great suspense and an eerie tone for the reader.
This story was by far the creepiest for me. I think one of the important literary terms applied here is the narrator. Here, I viewed the story as having multiple narrators. The speaker was not a single person, but Miss Emily's community as a whole, sort of all chiming in with memories of her. That is also why the structure is confusing/out of chronological order. Because of this, the story was really difficult for me to read, but the gist was clear.
The biggest "creepiness" factor I noticed was not all that harmful inandofitself- that Miss Emily was resistant to change. However the lengths she went to to ensure this was a bit drastic. First, one of the narrators mentions that she kept her father's body for days. "She told thm that her father was not dead. She did that for threedays, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." Again, at the end, it is revealed that Homer, Emily's lover, has been dead for some time - most likely by Emily's doing since she didn't want him to leave. With the detail of "a long strand of iron-gray hair," the separated structure of multiple speakers creates great suspense and an eerie tone for the reader.
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