In William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" he speaks of a lost woman searching for a forbidden love. His story takes place in the little gossip filled town of Jefferson where Emily's father raises her. Emily's live is sheltered because her father is overly protective; therefore, Emily only had her father. The relationship between Mr. Grierson and Emily caused the town to wonder and Emily to react strangely. In the end Emily loved, yet only knew the love of her father.
This story begins with Faulkner describing the scene of Miss Emily's empty house on the day of her funeral. Her house, which was once full of life and beauty, now stands dark, full of odd smells, dust and torn furniture. The people in town came partially in respect for the older woman, and to see just what she had kept so secrete in her house. Faulkner also explains, that the towns people remembered seeing, "Miss Emily a slender figure in a white background, her father a straddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horse whip, the two of them framed by the back flung front door." (Faulkner, 57) There was something disturbing about the fact that Miss Emily did not date. She was still single at the age of thirty, yet the town accepted the oddness of the Grierson house. .
When Emily's father died, this is when the town had hoped Miss Emily would get out and fina a man to marry, but the death of her father made Emily crazy. When people would come to visit Miss Emily and share her grief, "Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead." (Faulkner, 57) After three days of denial, Emily finally broke down. The doctors removed her father's body as soon as they could. She had gown very attached to her father because he made her depend on him. Mr. Grierson without knowledge, made his daughter crazy. The townspeople said, "We did not say she was crazy then.
When we read the end of the story, on the one hand, we are surprise to learn that Miss William Faulkner killed her lover, Mr. ... Is Miss Emily a murder or innocent? ... Emily refused to accept the present world, she lived in her past world, which was the main reason for her to kill Mr. Homer. ... Her norms killed herself and made her killed her lover. ...
When miss Emily starts seeing Homer on a regular basis the town is happy to see her interacting again. ... It was hard for miss Emily when Homer did not want to marry her. ... Miss Emily decided to poison Homer using arsenic. ... While the town saw miss Emily as a lonely old woman she reassure herself with Homer's body that she was not alone. ... With her persistence to break free from the isolation she lives in drives her to kill innocent Homer Barron who denied her his love. ...
Miss Emily's anguish began with the death of her father. ... Because of the death of her father, Miss Emily has become a hermit of sorts. ... It seems as though Miss Emily has found a man she wants to be with forever. ... Now she is trying to decide how she will kill him. ... The room where Miss Emily keeps Homer Barron's body is like a shrine to her love for him. ...
There are several different symbolic subjects in this story such as the house, Miss Emily as a "monument," Homer and the "Yankee" views, and Miss Emily's old Negro servant who represents death in the story. ... Miss Emily becomes mentally ill as she buys the arsenic to kill Homer Barron because she cannot bear to give up their relationship. ... Homer became the irony for Emily and she didn't want that to happen as she had strong feelings for him so she killed him and kept the corpse in her bed. ... Miss Emily used the servant to take her to get the arsenic in which she used to kill...
More talk of Miss Emily and Homer Barron came from the town. ... The community thought of Homer Barron as Miss Emily's lover. ... Miss Emily poisoned Homer in her home killed him. If she loved him, why did she kill him? ... Miss Emily even slept with Homer's body. ...
Miss Emily Grierson represents the south, and Mr. ... The biggest thing that Miss Emily does that lets shows how hard it is for her to accept change is when she kills her lover Homer Barron. Homer Barron was a man whose job took him from place to place, and Miss Emily knew this. ... Homer Barron also could never stay with something for a long period of time, which was not a good thing because it ended up getting him killed. ... Homer also controlled Emily. ...
Miss Emily meets Homer Barron a Northern and a foreman with a construction company. ... Emily uses the poison to kill Homer. ... "And that was the last time we saw Homer Barron. 4 And of Miss Emily for some time"(47). ... When she felt as thought she might lose Homer, she chose to do the only thing that would keep Homer with her, kill him. Miss Emily made the choice to have Homer with her whether it was alive or dead. ...
There are several different symbolic subjects in this story such as the house, Miss Emily as a "monument," Homer and the "Yankee" views, and Miss Emily's old Negro servant who represents death in the story. ... Miss Emily becomes mentally ill as she buys the arsenic to kill Homer Barron because she cannot bear to give up their relationship. ... Homer became the irony for Emily and she didn't want that to happen as she had strong feelings for him so she killed him and kept the corpse in her bed. ... Miss Emily used the servant to take her to get the arsenic in which she used to kill...
After a while Miss Emily started to fall in love with Homer. ... Faulkner had Miss Emily kill Homer in the story to show her problem of letting go. After Miss Emily killed Homer she kept him in a bed in the house and slept with him so she would not be alone. Homer made Miss Emily feel good about herself because she was not alone anymore. This is why Miss Emily poisoned him because she did not want Homer to leave her for good. ...
