First i have to say i liked the story, at least I found it a lot better than “A Rose for Emily”.  I think the dialogs in the story were good and thanks to good dialogs it was more of an enjoyable reading. What I find odd about the story is Connie at least for a few moments did seem interested in Arnold. I think it is ridicilous because any girl with little bit of logic would understand that something is wrong when someone ended up in your door asking for a date WITH A FRIEND. Who would go ask a date with a friend near him?

I just wanted to add this funny picture here, of course it is not a serious evidence against the people who thinks online file sharing is stealing, but I think it is funny enough to deserve a place in my blog. I think nowadays laws are written to protect strong companies more than ordinary citizens. The reason behind this is obviously the politicians need powerful people behind them to be elected and eventually those people who had helped them, asks for a favour. As Charlie W. Moore noted in his article that there is a law proposal in United States and when it becomes a law even a single unconscious copyright infringement will take you to jail and that is showing music producers, the powerful people are trying every possible way to get “internet pirates” out of their way( I don’t think artist care about it that much because they earn good money from their concerts, advertisements and so..). Is it fair? Well It may be but when u looked at the other side of the picture this requires goverment to watch everything you do on the internet and that is simply a breaking someone’s personal privacy what should not be allowed in any circumstances in my opinion.

image reference: http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/6998/Piracy.html

My problem with the short stories is that I know that there is going to be a surprise ending and while reading I’m always way more suspicious than I should be. With this approach, it’s unavoidable for me to be disappointed at the end of the story as the original ending is never as extreme as my predictions. It wasn’t any different for “ A Rose for Emily “ as well. So I ended up having thoughts like “ hmm, probably Homer Barron’s homosexual lover is going to kill Emily” or “ this servant should be a serial killer “ while reading parts that author probably wrote to make reader think about the life of a noble woman in old times. So it wasn’t fascinating for me to end up with a simple drama ending while expecting a better one. The servant in the story Tobe probably thought the same and was like “ What am I doing here if i’m not going to do something unexpected? “ while simply walking away at the end of the story.