great insight into the characters. Four stories that have surprise endings are Rose for Emily, Young Goodman Brown, To Room Nineteen, and The Necklace.

The surprise in Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, is in the last sentence of the story. When they see the "long strand of iron-gray hair" (43) on the pillow. Through this we now see what Emily has been doing over the years. We now know why Homer, her lover, was never seen again and what that pungent smell was. From her actions, now revealed, we

can understand what she was driven to. With this one sentence, Emily is

expressed as a desperate old woman. Through out the story you believe she is a woman of high stature with normal aspirations. Then the surprise comes in which we see she commits the ultimate crime, murder. We better understand the true effects of her father's repression and isolation and what Emily must resort to. She was very lonely. Homer was going to leave her. With killing him she could have him forever and live out those normal aspirations. This way she avoided the pain of being alone for the res

Surprise endings are very beneficial to stories. They keep the reader

The surprise in The Necklace, by Guy De Maupassant, is when Matilda is told that the necklace she lost was a fake. "Oh! My poor Matilda! Mine were false. They were not worth over five hundred francs!" (71). With the effort she had to put in to replace the lost necklace she had become a hard and worn woman. So much so her friend did not recognize her on the street. Matilda worked so had to pay off her debts that when she was done, she did not act how she once did. Before the lost necklace, she longed for fancy dinners and things above her class. After, she did not complain and was not dissatisfied with what she had. The end is ironic because not only was the necklace fake, but so was Matilda in the beginning. She then becomes real because she had to work for everything. A real transformation occurs with in her. She then understands how good she had it after she had to give it all up.

The surprise in Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is even though Goodman Brown did not know if what he had seen was a dream or real, Goodman Brown treated it real. With this action, Young Go

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