1.)  Southern Gothic romanticism is regular gothic archetypes with a southern twist acdded to them.
2.)  The first story "The Life You Save Might Be Your Own" shows examples of Gothic traits because Mr.Shiftlet did something bad by leaving Lucynell at the cafe and then later on he felt bad about it so he showed that he might not be as bad as you thought. The other story "A Rose for Emily" also shows examples of Gothic traits because the town never did anything to help miss Emily they just left her to herself but every once in awhile someone would try to do somethng to help her out.
3. ) Both stories compare to Gothic romanticism or dark romanticism because they both have a run down house and a grotesque or a character who requires both sympathy and disgust from the reader. It was also romanticism because it dealt with a greater idea of caring and kindness.
4.)  One reason why her crime was ignored was because she was pitied because she neve found love it shows this when it says "poor Miss Emily." Also when it talks about how she never married. Another reason is she was lonely. In the story it say "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away." So this meant she must have been alone alot through out her life. The last reason was because she would never listen to them and ignore what they had to say. It shows this when it says "Miss Emily just stared at him, Her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up." Which shows she did not listen to what others thought and only did what she wanted to do.
5.)  The hitchhiker is very important to the story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" because that is who Mr. Shiftlet told that by leaving lucynell at the cafe was a bad thing. If the Hitchhiker was not in the story we would not have known how he feels about what he did so it would not be Southern Gothic Romanticism.