Does the story seem to you totally grim, or do you find any humor in it?
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- Although “A Rose for Emily” is both Gothic and grim, it also contains several moments of humor, a feature that is particularly Southern. (Teachers may wish to compare Faulkner’s humor with Flannery O’Connor’s, for while both are Southern writers, they each have their own flavor.) For example, from a certain point of view, Emily’s refusal to change, and the way in which she never has to pay taxes, is funny. When the deputation comes to visit her, they rise when she enters the room, and she does not ask them to sit down. She simply repeats “I have no taxes in Jefferson.” When she tells them to see Colonel Sartoris and to look at the city records, some readers may laugh, for the Colonel has been dead for ten years! By the story’s end, we learn again that she has never had to pay taxes, and the reader realizes that for all of her Southern “innocence,” she is a strong-willed woman who knows how to get her way. In addition, the description of the four men who cross Miss Emily’s lawn like burglars, not to steal from her but to deal with the rotten stench, may cause some readers to laugh.
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