Monday, November 8, 2010

Short Stories So Far

So far, I like the short stories unit. The works we've read (I know it's only five, but still) are more interesting than poems were. Edward was creepy, but Emily Grierson won that battle when she kept a corpse in a bed in her house because Colonel Sartoris was a control freak. He made his own daughter crazy by driving away all suitors. I guess her way of keeping a man in her life was killing him while he was surrounded by items she bought for him (page 289). It makes sense that she would want him to have a part of her since he was the only man she ever had any relationship. The fact that she could lay next to a corpse and feel like she had company is disturbing even though it seems almost logical in a crazy kind of way. Was she actually crazy, or did she just have daddy issues?

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