A Rose For Miss Emily Literary Analysis

A Rose for Miss Emily The narrator provides that Miss Emily is crazy in an obscure way. First the smell in which we can see in page 284, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?" Second, when she wanted arsenic in page 286, "I want arsenic." Thirdly, how she never leaves her house in page 288. Lastly, she is crazy because when the townspeople went inside Miss Emily's house they found Homer lying in a bed decaying and found out that Miss Emily was sleeping next it in page 289, "Then we noticed that in the second pillow… leaning forward, that faint… long strand of iron-gray hair." We can infer that the narrators are just telling the story out of their observation from a first person plural point of view. The narrator is however very
In page 134 paragraph 1, it says, "I got out of my own things and slipped it on… have a strapless bra… pinning up my hair..." This not only explains Edie's eager at this age, where she is blossoming out of her childhood and turning into a woman but also, we see Edie's childlike and innocent trait because she was scared that Chris (the pilot) will tell Mrs. Peebles what happened. Also, if we see page 144, "Kissing," I howled." This quote furthermore shows Edie's innocence because she doesn't know what intimate means. Lastly, we see that Edie is naive because she waited the summer and well into the fall, six days a week, Edie waits at the mailbox for the letter Chris has promised to write. "It never crossed my mind for a long time a letter might not come." (Pg. 145) Then as she grew old, she knew no letter was ever going to come. In conclusion, the narrator is not reliable in my opinion because not only is this story told from first person but also, out of her loss of innocence we cannot say we "know" her and that she hasn't changed after this