If you were sleeping in high school when you should have been reading Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” you might want to give this story another try. More than a Southern Gothic about cultural decay and small-town groupthink, “A Rose for Emily” reeks with rotten corpses, necrophilia, arsenic, and murder. Emily is tough, too, and stands tall despite her diminutive height as a woman not to be toyed with. Worth the re-read!