Faulkner, William (1897 - 1962) | William Faulkner (Story Date 1930)
WILLIAM FAULKNER (STORY DATE 1930)
SOURCE: Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” In American Gothic Tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 182-90. New York: Plume, 1996.
The following excerpt is from one of Faulkner’s best-known stories, first published in Forum in 1930.
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So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, “She will marry him.” Then we said, “She will persuade him yet,” because Homer himself had remarked—he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elk’s Club—that he was not a marrying man. Later we said, “Poor Emily,” behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth,...
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