Southern Gothic Romanticism: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "A Rose for Emily"

Southern Gothic Romanticism: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "A Rose for Emily"

What is Southern Gothic Romanticism? How do the two stories and their authors exhibit Southern Gothic traits? How do these stories and their literature compare to Romanticism and Gothic or Dark Romanticism?

It is like regular Gothic Romanticism, ,but usually involves a deformity or a lessening factor in some way. The two stories and their authors exhibit Southern Gothic traits because in both stories there are 'limps' to the characters that make them more wondrous. These stories are more interesting that those of regular or dark romanticism because it gives more of an oppression to get over, and symbolizes how regressed some points can be.

  In “A Rose from Emily”, why do you think Miss Emily’s crime goes undetected until her death? Identify at least three contributing factors and support them with reference to the story.

 

Emily's crime goes undetected because she became unattached to everything, much like that of someone suffering from a broken heart. So, it brought up no immediate concern to worry over. Also, her closing off of the portion of the house of which his body was held in made it impossible for anyone to see while she was alive. One wore thing is that they thought he left to set up his house for the marriage that was imagined to have.

 Flannery O’Connor, the author of “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, said that the hitchhiker Shiftlet picks up at the end ‘makes the story work.’ How do you think the episode with the hitchhiker does this?

The hitchhiker Shiftlet  picks up makes the story work because it shows that no matter how Shiftlet seemed and sees things, he'll always have a soft spot for those "free spirit" like him.