"One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."
This story creeped me out. The mysterious tone of the story was definitely added by the reader's continuous questioning and unknowing attitude throughout the course of the story. I don't really understand the end of the story. The beginning of the story starts off with Emily always being gossiped about and considered "poor Emily" because of her father and the life she lives. Yet, at the end of the story she has killed her husband and sleeps with his dead body? I don't understand that at all. I also did not get why everyone attended her funeral if she is a murderer. I also think it is interesting that the beginning of the story starts the reader off with a semi-normal attitude toward Emily, but at the end, the reader is very shocked and creeped out by Emily.
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