"A rose for Emily" and "A good man is hard to find"

Reflection #2

In this journal entry I’m going to talk a little about the two stories that we read in class: “A rose for Emily” and “A good man is hard to find”. I’m going to give a very brief summary of what these stories were about and then compare them in some aspects that made me think a lot about the stories.
In “A rose for Emily”, Emily was a young woman who lived with her father. Her father was a very jealous man who always thought that every single man was never good enough for his daughter. She loved under his shadow. When she did fell in love with a man named Homer she found out later on that he was gay so she killed him and never buried him. He stayed in her bed till she got old and died. By this time her father had already died too. This story is written in a retrospective way, it jumps from the present to the past, etc…
In “A good man is hard to find” a family composed of three kinds, their parents and grandmother plan a trip to Florida. Their grandmother by reading the newspaper finds out that a prisoner escaped and that he was headed to Florida. She warned her family but they went anyways. On their way they stopped to eat barbecue sandwiches at a little restaurant. Their grandmother sat and talked with the owner of the place and he told her that in today’s world you couldn’t trust anyone because no one is trustworthy these days. They left the place and kept on with their trip and she remembered of a house in a plantation that she uses to go to when she was little. It had supposedly a hidden door on the walls which no one could ever find. The kids got curious and wanted to go see the house so they went back and as they were driving she remembered that the house was in Tennessee, not Georgia. They had an accident on the way because of the dusty road and three men came to help them. Their grandmother quickly recognized the man. He was the prisoner who had escaped known as “The misfit”. Then he just killed them all.
This two stories for me where really shocking in a way because it’s unbelievable how there are people that really do act this way. They don’t care about other people’s lives. For example, in “Arose for Emily” how can you sleep for so many years with a dead body by your side? Obviously, it’s not normal but then it’s a very high insanity level. In “A good man is hard to find”, “The misfit” didn’t even care that there were three kids he just killed without even thinking or feeling anything at all.
Something that I found to be really awkward was, why did we read two stories about death? Did it have a purpose? It did made me think that frankly as in the story “A good man is hard to find” they say, in today’s world you can’t trust anyone, not even family, because no one right now is trust worthy.