Rose for emily

Eduardo Germán Professor Boehm. Enc 1102 February 12 2002 According to William James, “As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.” This is one of the main reasons why people in the town thought of Emily as a good, sad lady. Since Emily’s family was a …showed first 75 words of 966 total…

…showed last 75 words of 966 total…or “What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.” (465) Therefore the odor the house had was because Homer was dead all this time and Emily had used the arsenic to kill him taking advantage of the gullibility of the whole town.