Associative Reader Response For 'A Rose For Emily'
Vanessa Duell 2/1/15
Mrs. Brothers AP ELA 11
Associative Reader Response for “A Rose For Emily”
It must be hard for a person to really love someone and only that person, and then that certain person dies. Miss Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout this short story. None of these changes had a positive effect on Miss Emily’s life, and her life just seemed to keep getting worse. I can connect to Miss Emily in some ways because I know how it feels to lose a loved one (my grandfather). I was young when he died but I realize now that if I were older when he passed, I would just shut everyone out and be depressed just like Miss Emily. This story tells how when her father died she barley went out and was rarely …show more content…
They believed her kinsfolk should have come for her but in truth; her father was the only one she had. Now he is gone and they expect her to be the same and all happy and normal like nothing has ever happened, but the truth is for everyone is no one is the same after a sudden death. She won’t heal from this situation and move on. Her story can only get worse. I think that the hidden meaning in this story is love. Emily’s father never gave her the chance to experience love with another man. Over the years, she learned to only love her father to the lack of any other male companionship. Her father was the only man she ever learned to truly love. Later when she met Homer, people automatically assumed “she would marry him” since she didn’t have any other love than her father. The towns’ people were so anxious for her not to be lonely anymore and to live her life. Then something occurred between her and Homer which lead to the wrongful deed of Emily killing him with arsenic poison. I think that maybe Homer wanted to leave her because he got tired of the same girl. Like her dad dying and leaving her lonely and she wasn’t willing to let Homer leave. I feel bad for Emily because she should have had the experience to live her own life and to find true love since her father never let her experience
Mrs. Brothers AP ELA 11
Associative Reader Response for “A Rose For Emily”
It must be hard for a person to really love someone and only that person, and then that certain person dies. Miss Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout this short story. None of these changes had a positive effect on Miss Emily’s life, and her life just seemed to keep getting worse. I can connect to Miss Emily in some ways because I know how it feels to lose a loved one (my grandfather). I was young when he died but I realize now that if I were older when he passed, I would just shut everyone out and be depressed just like Miss Emily. This story tells how when her father died she barley went out and was rarely …show more content…
They believed her kinsfolk should have come for her but in truth; her father was the only one she had. Now he is gone and they expect her to be the same and all happy and normal like nothing has ever happened, but the truth is for everyone is no one is the same after a sudden death. She won’t heal from this situation and move on. Her story can only get worse. I think that the hidden meaning in this story is love. Emily’s father never gave her the chance to experience love with another man. Over the years, she learned to only love her father to the lack of any other male companionship. Her father was the only man she ever learned to truly love. Later when she met Homer, people automatically assumed “she would marry him” since she didn’t have any other love than her father. The towns’ people were so anxious for her not to be lonely anymore and to live her life. Then something occurred between her and Homer which lead to the wrongful deed of Emily killing him with arsenic poison. I think that maybe Homer wanted to leave her because he got tired of the same girl. Like her dad dying and leaving her lonely and she wasn’t willing to let Homer leave. I feel bad for Emily because she should have had the experience to live her own life and to find true love since her father never let her experience