they are both have elements of murder and are dementing. Which do you prefer? I like Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontadillo way more..
2006-06-23 09:56:46 · 12 answers · asked by ? 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'd have to vote for "A Rose For Emily." Poe is the master of the weird short story, but when I first read "A Rose For Emily," it gave me the shivers in a way that no other short story ever has. I'm a big fan of Faulkner anyway, so it was an even bigger thrill to find that the creator of the Yoknapatawpha County stories had gone slumming in the horror genre where I first started publishing my own work!
What's even more entertaining than the short story itself is the true story of how Faulkner came to write "A Rose For Emily." Literary magazines of that time were publishing a certain fashionable types of short story. Faulkner wanted to prove that he could isolate the story elements in these "fashionable" stories, combine them all into one short story, and that he would in fact sell this "experimental" story. Sure enough, he picked out the elements of murder, the peculiar little old lady, Southern Gothic, a doomed romance, along with a few other elements, and created "A Rose For Emily," which has become one of the most widely read and widely anthologized short stories in the horror genre.
2006-06-23 10:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by Scribe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer "The Cask of Amontadillo" by Poe. He has this wonderful ability to make you actually hear and feel the words he uses in his stories. His works are dark and sometimes difficult to read but well worth the effort.
2006-06-24 01:24:55 · answer #2 · answered by kitten 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer "A Rose for Emily." While overall I prefer Poe as a writer I really think he excels at poetry more so than his short stories. Also "A Rose..." is written in the first-person plural point of view and is non-chronological, making it a more complex and unusual piece of literature. Totally chilling! Happy reading,
2006-06-23 17:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by Claire6y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like The Cask, it's one of my fave short stories by Poe and I wrote a paper on it in college.
2006-06-23 22:11:22 · answer #4 · answered by shutrbug13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Rose for Emily
2006-06-23 16:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by pink l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rose for emily becuase the story is inspiring
2006-06-23 17:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by jasmine d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a tie...they're their own genres and I love them both ...I read them two years ago in 9th grade....Poe's is funny and predictable,my friends and I had quite a bit of fun with that one...we reacted it..jingle jingle jingle...good times ...but Faulkners is breath taking...it's amazing how little words can be soooo deep they both took my breath away but for different reasons....one cuz I was laughing and the other cuz I was astonished
2006-06-26 00:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by baby_girl3031 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've never read a rose for emily...but i liked the cask of amontillado.
so, i'd take the cask any day.
2006-06-23 18:51:02 · answer #8 · answered by honesty*from*emily 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poe's by far! the bricking over somebody while their alive. how horrible
2006-06-23 17:01:55 · answer #9 · answered by phxem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Rose for Emily. it's about love - really freaky, crazy, scary, nasty love - but love.
2006-06-24 03:41:15 · answer #10 · answered by justMe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋