Essay # 2

Two Different Stories
Are two different stories but with some connections, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. Is natural that these stories don’t have any connection because the writers are different and with different types of writing, but when we read them we can see some things that connects in both stories. “A Rose for Emily” is a story that talks about a woman that lives in a strange country and there habitants are always talking about her and her decisions. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author talks about a family that makes a road trip and in the way something unexpected happen. So we can see that the main ideas of the stories are not the same. But in both stories an old house appears in the most important moment and development of these, in addition of the final of the two stories that have an unexpected end.
In “A Rose for Emily” almost all the story take place or have involved an old house, the house of Emily. That house is described like an old and big house where she lives alone. Emily lives in the house and the only things that the people, who live in her country, don’t know are the things that happen inside the house because nobody enters. At the end of the story Emily decide to keep her self inside the house and the habitants did not saw her in a long time. That moment is the most important in the story because is the moment that nobody knows something about Emily and what she was doing, this occurs in the pick of the story. In other way in the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” at the middle of the trip, the grandmother propose to go to an old house that she used to visit when she was young. This occurs at the middle of the story and is the way where something unexpected happen and when the end of the story takes place. So we can see that the old house appears in some important moments in the stories and is where the important things take place.
In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the end was unexpected and a total disaster because the man that escape of the penitentiary, was the one that found the family when the car accident occurred. Then the man kills all the family including the grandmother and that is the end of the story. When I was reading the story I was involved in the trip and the story that the grandmother was telling to the kids, never cross my mind that kind of end. Other wise in “A Rose for Emily” the thing that the habitants of the country suspected was exactly what occurred, Emily brought the poison to kill Homer and at the end of the story, Homer were found inside the house dead. Both ends were unhappiest and macabre because some people die and the things that nobody wanted occurs.
Two stories totally different, one main idea of the stories was a road trip with a big family, the other one was the life of a strange woman. But both stories have in its development an old creepy house that appears in the middle of the stories and is where the important parts occur. Reading the stories we can think in a possible end but never one that involve death. One of the stories end with the death of all the family and the other one ends with the death of the main character and Homer that was murdered. Two different stories with different authors but with some strong connections.