In by , Faulkner uses several Gothic elements to create an eerie
feeling. In general, Gothic writers imbue their stories with horror, death, and gloom, and these
features are all present in A Rose for Emily.
Specifically, the author establishes a morbid . First, the story commences with a death
and anto a funeral and cemetery. At the opening, Misshas recently died. In the second paragraph,
the author writes:
And now Miss Emily had gone to join the
representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the
ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of
Jefferson.
Further on when Faulkner describes Miss Emilys
death, Faulkner says:
And so she died. Fell ill in the
house filled with dust and shadows€¦.She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut
bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack
of...
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