Sarah PriceKigginsEnglish 2010March 15, 2014Red Revenge"A Rose for Emily" written by William Faulkner and "The Cask of Amontillado" written by Edgar Allen Poe are two short stories that were written almost a hundred years apart and which contain similar and different things. If two stories are similar in that they are about murder and the victims having no idea what will happen to them, they are different in how they are written and the order in which they are written. are written. Rose for Emily" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are two short stories that talk about murder. The two stories contradict each other in particular in the order in which they are told. "The Cask of Amontillado" has a chronological order, while "The Cask of Amontillado" has a chronological order, while "The Cask of Amontillado" has a chronological order, while "The Cask of Amontillado" has a chronological order, while " A Rose for Emily" is out of order and is told randomly. William Faulkner uses more of a media resolution than a chronological order. The short story, "A Rose for Emily", begins with the narrator talking about the funeral of 'Emily. "A Rose for Emily" is the story of a woman who did not want to be left alone. After the death of her father, she no longer wanted to be betrayed and abandoned. her companion, Homer Barron, was going to go out of town and never return. When Emily thought that, she knew she had to find a way to make him stay. She went to the druggist and bought some poison to kill. Homer. Although it's not really clear what she did, the fact that Homer Barron walked into Emily's house one day and was never seen again tells us that's what she did. has passed. "A neighbor saw the negro admit him at the kitchen door one evening at dusk. And that was the last time we saw Homer Barron" (Faulkner). Emily keeps him in the room upstairs in her bed and never tells anyone... middle of paper... he is the barrel of Amontillado," Poe writes in the first person. In the first paragraph and in the first sentence, the narrator uses I. I indicates that the story is in the first person "I bore Fortunato's thousand wounds as best I could, but when he ventured to. insult him, I swore revenge" (Poe) He also uses words such as "I answered". to let us know that it is in the first person. "It is further, say -I but observe the white canvas that shines on the walls of this cave. In Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily", Faulkner chose to write his story in the third person omniscient. that she, he, she said and we “I want poison,” she said to the pharmacist (Faulkner), “Arsenic,” said Miss Emily” (Faulkner). Faulkner also defines the main characters through an innumerable amount of secondary characters and images. Poe allows us to enter into the character's head.