Reading week 1c quote-response

I'm choosing a passage from "A Rose for Emily" because of the humor, mystary, and irony that it adds to the story.
"I want some poison"
"Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I'd recom-------"
"I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind"
"That will kill anything up to an elephant. but what you want is----"
"Arsenic, is that a good one?"
"Is...Arsenic?? Yes, ma'am. But what you want is----"
"I want arsenic." (Faulkner, 32)

I feel like this is a vital passage in "A Rose for Emily" because of the mystery it adds for the towns’ people, and in my case the mystery it gives the reader. Ever since Emily's childhood people had been trying to make her life their own. everyone always wanted to know what was going on at her house. She was a vary interesting addition to the town. This passage seemed to add to that interest.

I think that the key term that caught my eye in this part of the story is "Arsenic" most people don't take that word lightly. I mean we typically associate it with death or killing. But not just that word alone makes it interesting. It’s the timing that it’s used in the story. To make a long story short we find out that she loses her dad which was prominently the only man in her life and very painful for her. At least some would say it was hard on her. Then another man comes into her life. After the story goes on for a bit the towns people start to conspire that she had maybe ran him off. In comes the arsenic passage. This is the mystery of the whole thing. Did she buy it for rats or to make sure that another man was not going to leave her?

To me this seemed like a really important turn or twist in the story. I like reading books that make you read all the way through cause of a catch that they throw in the middle. This type of story really makes me use my imagination which to me is a very cool part to reading. The imagination!!