English and Literature

    As I mentioned in my blog post on “A Rose,” we can read Faulkner’s Gothic tale as a detective story but with a twist. A traditional detective story presents a crime early on and offers clues along the way that only make sense after the detective has revealed the culprit. In “A Rose,” we learn that a crime has been committed at the end of the story, which suddenly causes us to rethink the details of Emily’s story. Lawrence R. Rodgers, whose article you have read an excerpt from, elaborates on how “A Rose” is at its heart a detective story. Although Rodgers points out that what Faulkner leaves out is the detective character, a Sherlock Holmes-like figure, he claims that the story’s non-linear plot structure and unreliable narrator have “led readers and critics to become the surrogate detectives of Faulkner’s world” (752). So, for this week’s post, I would like you to elaborate on how reading “A Rose” placed you in the role of detective

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