Comparing 'Killings And A Rose For Emily'

The main characters in the two short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe can be compared and contrasted by their actions and their thoughts. The two characters Emily and Montresor both hold their differences and similarities with the deaths they caused. Their intentions may have been out of revenge or caused by an act of hate, but were both murders premeditated?

The stories are similar in a way that both characters Matt and Emily kill because of their strong act of love. They kill out of love for someone. Emily killed Homer because she was afraid to be alone. As for Matt, he killed for closure for his son’s death. This makes the reader sympathize with the protagonist who show their love by murdering someone.

There were many things that segregated herself from the community, but something that made her really stick out was that It was extremely rare for a woman to be unmarried, and without children at her age. This lead to her neighbors engaging in gossip, and her persona was questioned even more. Miss Emily was highly stubborn, and she always did exactly what she pleased, and she didn’t care to think of what the others thought about her. Her unusual behaviors ultimately lead her into confinement. All of her unusual behaviors that her identity portrayed directly stems from how she was raised.

In “A rose for Emily” (RFE) and “The Most Dangerous Game”(MDG) both Emily and Rainsford murdered someone in order to obtain something they lacked. However, their experiences reflect very differents reasons for killing a person. Emily lacked love, whereas Rainsford lacked power.

It is evident that Miss Emily’s past influenced her appalling actions at the end of the book. I believe that her father’s oppressive behavior still lingered within her. Her father's impact was so strong that she felt the only way Homer Barron wouldn't exit her life was if he laid with her in his eternal sleep. Furthermore, in the story when the men came to her to speak on her taxes, she kept repeating “I have no taxes in Jefferson. Ask Colonel Sartoris” even though Colonel Sartoris has been dead for some years. Her repeating those lines inevitably foreshadows her

She is a hardworking, honorable, yet stubborn woman. Since birth, she is pampered and is raised as if she were white. She follows in her mother’s footsteps and has a relationship with a white frenchman named Joseph Billes. She lives with him and works in his store where “sacks weighed almost as much as {her}, but she pulled and tugged” to get merchandise into the building (363). When her relationship with Joseph is not taken nicely by the townspeople she still stays honorable to him even after he leaves her. They have five children together and Joseph remains in their lives even though he is with another woman. Emily is like her mother, she wants her children to choose white partners because it can give them a better life. She becomes stubborn with T.O’s wife, Geneva, because she is dark

     Emily was not what you would call the average murderer. She was strange however, after her own death (which is known to reader in the very first line of the story) the townspeople described her as '…a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of

Both the murders in Killings and A Rose for Emily were premeditated. The plans were carefully thought out so that there would be no bumps along the way. Matt was motivated by revenge for his son's murder. Emily killed for revenge as well except hers was so that the man she loved wouldn't leave her. Matt attained more sympathy from the readers I think because he was unable to control the death of his son. Neither he nor Emily were able to cope with their losses of son and father respectively. Both responded with murder. Matt murdered the man responsible for his son's loss and Emily murdered the man she felt responsible for ruining her possible new beginning. Both were motivated by their own selfish desires. Matt could not forgive Richard for

After reading the story, "A Rose for Emily", I have came to the conclusion that Emily is an unbalanced human being. At some point in Emily's life she was a victim, due to the fact that her father would keep her away from other individuals, which most likely caused her to be a villain in the long run. For instance, the fact that she killed Homer makes her a villain, but the events that she has been through in the past probably caused her to behave this way. Also, the author portrays Emily as someone that is antisocial and a victim.

Emily is a woman that has had a hard life. Her family made it so that she was held in high regard in the public eye. She was not suppose to encounter relationships that were below her stature. The town, being the antagonist, drives Emily to her insanity because they will not allow her to lead a normal life. They liked the “show” they were watching a refused to give it up.

The picture or “tableau” of Emily in her childhood gives us our first clue into her strange personality. She is “a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door.” The scene almost blatantly reveals Emily in her

Ironically, death provides formidable lessons to be taught about life and the power of death stems conflict in tradition vs change as main themes is symbolized by the rose being given to her in the title of the story “A Rose for Emily.” In retrospect, the death consumed life of Emily is best compared to the depletion of tradition in the face of the growing modern changes in society at that time and despite attempts to thwart death in every measure it will always prevail per, Falkner. For this reason, the character Emily stands for the representation of how the conflict of change vs tradition and the power of death affected the town of Jefferson, customs, and herself.

Emily is angry and resentful. She is angry at her mother and blames her for her life and the way she has turned out. Her mother has always put her down and constantly tell her that she was

Mrs. Emily Grierson, is definitely seen as a strange character in any reader’s opinion and a character analysis of Emily would definitely go in countless directions. In the story the reader witnesses Mrs. Emily having a hard time dealing with several of life 's hardships. Emily’s own self-depression, anxiety and her disconnection from the community is what brings most of the events to

Emily’s father died when she was about thirty and refused to accept her father’s death for three days and after a life of having husbands rejected by her father, she spends most of her time with a newcomer Homer Barron. According to the saying of townspeople “Their relationship improper because of differences in value, social class, and regional background” (Mosby 2). Therefore, she started to think of herself as an unfortunate girl. Her father and Homer Barron played an important and significant role in her life and for that reason, she could not bear the absence of two people in her life and stayed unhappy in her house. It seems that Emily might have psychological trauma and it may be assumed that her loneliness turned into a stubborn character as her house is described as “stubborn and coquettish”(Faulkner 557) which reflects the character of the owner of the