"A Rose for Emily"

William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" is about a psychotic women by the name of Emily Grierson who's family was very self absorbed. When Emily's father dies she no longer has to pay taxes. Colonel Sartoris made up a story that Emily's father loaned the town a good bit of money and the way that the town was going to pay it back was eliminating any taxes due by Ms. Emily Grierson. Eventually Emily met a man that was of a lower class rank and began "dating" him. Not long after their "dating" Emily kills him with arsenic, and the towns people find her "surprise" after her death in a locked up room where she laid with the decaying body night after night.

"A&P"

John Updike's short story "A&P" was about a young man working at a grocery store who has found an interest in three girls that walk in with bathing suits on. Updike is very descriptive when talking about these girls through the narrator, Sammy. This is why Sammy is considered to be a first person unreliable narrator. He is very dramatic and over emphasizes the reality of whats going on. I thought Sammy was quite immature for nineteen years old. I also thought that it was funny when he quit his job to impress the girls, but they had already left and didn't even see his "heroic" act.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

In Flannery Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" she uses a lot of foreshadowing. I did not realize the foreshadowing she uses until we discussed the story in class. When Mrs. Diggs explained how the SIX grave stones they passed on the way to Florida was a foreshadowing of their soon to be demise. Also O'Connor uses the forest as another way of foreshadowing by describing it as a "gaping mouth". I also did not realize how manipulative the Grandmother was. I wasn't really reading that hard into it I suppose, but some good points were made about her manipulation techniques. Over all I really enjoyed the story.

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