Another class’s blog discussion of As I Lay Dying

A colleague referred me to a blog at his college that I wanted to share with you since the students there seem to be at the same point in As I Lay Dying and have some interesting things to say about it.  Check it out–you might even be inspired to comment on their posts!  If you do, please link us to your comment!

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Full-text As I Lay Dying

Follow this link to a page that gives you many different options to view or download William Faulkner’s  As I Lay Dying.  I would recommend downloading the .PDF version if you want to print pages from this edition.  Keep in mind that the book you will find in the file contains two novels, The Sound and the Fury, which we are not reading, followed by As I Lay Dying, which we are reading.  If you go to page 345, you will find yourself at the start of As I Lay Dying.  If you choose to print, be sure not to print both novels!  Also, you might see if you like printing it two pages per page, so that it looks more like an open book–this will save you paper and might make it easier to carry around.  Even if you have a copy of the novel, you might want to use this full-text version to search the text for a particular name or phrase as you continue to work on it.  Please let me know if you have any trouble using this site.

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Reading Response “A Rose for Emily”

In the story, Miss Emily’s funeral was attended by people of the town: men who came to pay their respect and women with their curiosity.  People viewed Miss Emily very differently as the time passes.  The neighborhood would jump in to conclusions because Miss Emily had a much concealed life.  The death of her father isolated herself more from the neighborhood and when Homer Barron showed up, her lifestyle has changed but this did not last very long.  Presence of Homer disappeared from the town and Miss Emily spent her life on her own till her death.  At the end of her funeral, people broke down one of her doors which was closed for more than 40 years, and found that Homer Barron’s rotting corpse was rotting on the bed surrounded by men’s clothing and accessories. The environment surrounding Miss Emily drove her to insanity. This story was strange and somewhat disturbing to me because it had similar plots to some of the psychotic movies.

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Reading Response To “A Rose For Emily”

When I finished reading the short story “A Rose for Emily”, The puzzle pieces from the story seemed to fit together. It was Miss Emily who had killed Homer Barron with the poison. Specifically, Arson that she bought from the druggist. He had a reputation for hanging out with the guys and the fact that he was, “not a marrying man”. So Miss Emily distraught and lonely and kind of crazy decided to kill him in her house so she could have him forever and know that he would never be able to leave her again .We know she slept in the same bed as his dead body because they found a gray hair on the pillow next to the dead body that was obviously Homer. The room was set up kind of like a shrine of Miss Emily’s youth and what could have happened. It’s like she wanted to immortalize it. She also was very ambivalent about death. She denied that her father was dead for three days after he did die and was convinced that a Colonel Sartris was still alive and well when in fact he had been dead for ten years. So for her to keep Homer’s dead body in the room, made sense to her. All in All, it was a very interesting story to read but vague at best. A lot of the things said in the story are lead up to speculation by the reader so you never really know what Miss Emily is all about.

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“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

There is an error on your syllabus!  is not on page 701–it’s not in the text book at all. Instead, you can find it here. Be sure to read it and post a reading response.

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