Discussion/ Week 2 / Question #2

In the end the author describes the unseen meticulously. The rose is used to represent the touch, and appearance of the room. The rose description was used to emphasize, how special and delicate this moment in time meant to Emily. There was an area of the story that illustrated a bed of flowers, but it did not state the bed of flowers to be roses. I think most of the town focused on these dark crazy women, so when the room was discovered it showed a softer sensitive side to Emily.
In the short story Emily is characterized as this dark mysterious person. Throughout the text her demeanor is conveyed to the reader as strange, and unbalanced. I think the perspective of Emily is a complete speculation, and the townspeople provided no real truth till the end. The townspeople where not reliable to me, but they also had a strange insight. They too painted themselves as dark and mysterious as Emily. They stayed watching Emily and her every move, and even when she bought something or came out of her house. Although this perception of Emily was told from a visual, I thought the townspeople to be judgmental. They had no empathy when it came to her state of mind, but the affect of not knowing kept the text in suspense, which I enjoyed. The text did not provide the exact truth, so when the room was described it was an understanding of the behavior, but it was not apparent why the behavior was occurring. I think this information does matter, because it never stated how he died or if she murdered him. If the man was a victim of murder, Emily could be painted as a dark killer, instead of a woman who was hoarding the dead bodies of her loved ones.