Miss Emily In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

As William Faulkner once said, “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”As we know William Faulkner, he has a Southern Gothic taste in his writing. This makes his writing creepy and a bit scary. In his “A Rose for Emily”, he includes Miss Emily Grierson or Miss Emily is portrayed as the creppy woman of the town in Yoknapatawpha County. In Faulkners “That Evening Sun” the Compson family and their slaves Nancy and Jesus should be feared for their actions and way of life. Faulkner’s use of Southern Gothic writing puts fear into his readers through his characters in his stories.
In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily is suspected of acting the way she, because of her father.
“In this case there was the young girl with a young girl's normal aspirations to find love and then a husband and a family, who was brow-beaten and kept down by her father, a selfish man who didn't want her to leave home because he wanted a housekeeper…and a family.”
So, Miss Emily had to wait for her father to die. When, she meets a man, Homer Barron, she does not really know what to do with the relationship. Miss Emily is using her past of not knowing what to do with a boy so she gets the wrong idea and kills Homer with Arensenic. While Miss Emily was at the drug store making the purchuse, the clerk knew exactly what arsenic is used for. This is a sense of forshadowing and the use of fear in Faulkner’s writing. Faulkner also uses a suspicious feeling, and suspicion can cause someone fear. In Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” Nancy and Jesus cause fear among the Compson family. When Jesus found out Nancy was pregnant, but he was not the father; plotted vengence against the man who impregnanted his wife. Faulker is using the fear and suspicion of what Jesus may do to the man that impregnanted his wife. In the begininng of the story, there is a scence of fear about