Similarities Between A Rose For Emily And Lamb To The Slaughter

Littered throughout the story is evidence that the murder took place. When Emily takes up with Homer Barron, a man whom the narrator makes clear was not the marrying kind; rumors start to fly about the two at a time when it was not considered proper for a man and woman to live together. The town, her relatives, and the Baptist minister disapproved of the relationship, and Emily was in danger of loosing Homer. A year after the relationship begins, and the pressures to either marry

When she finally found a male that showed some interest and emotion, she was attached to them. That’s where Homer Barron comes into the story. He would visit Emily and go for Sunday drives with her. When Homer told Emily that he must move on she found herself on the verge of loneliness once again. If Homer would leave it would be two men that have left her. When she realized that he was about to leave she poisoned him and would keep him forever.

            Emily chooses a lover that resembles her father in many ways;  Homer is big, strong, outspoken, and domineering.  Initially, the townspeople are happy to know that Emily is dating Homer.  "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer."  When they realize that Emily is serious about him, they have a change of heart.  "Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reigns and whip in a yellow glove."  Emily does not care about the people's reaction toward her affair with Homer.  Emily's affair with a "day laborer" is an act of defiance, toward her father and perhaps, even the toward the townspeople.  She wants to show everyone that she is in control of her life and will do as she pleases.

When Miss Emily finds somebody, though, it quickly pushes her to desperation. Her relationship with Homer Barron is a result of the life and death of her father. Ironically, he is a northern, roughneck Yankee, the exact opposite of any connection a Grierson would consider. Unsuspectingly, Emily is attracted to him, which is an oddity itself considering her lack of personality and his obvious charisma, for “whenever you [hear] a lot of laughing...Homer Barron [will] be in the center of the group” (560). He is also the first man to show an interest in her without her father alive to scare him off. The town is doubtful that the pair will remain together, but Emily's attachments are extreme, as seen when she would not surrender her father's body. The circumstance exhibits how her feelings are greatly intensified towards Homer. However, he is “not a marrying man” (561). When it appears as though he will leave her, she kills him with poison. While seemingly the opposite effect of love, killing Homer is quite in line with her obsession. If he is dead and she keeps Homer all to herself, Emily will never lose him; he can never leave her. Other such details that express her extreme attachments appear as she buys him clothes and toiletries before they are even considered married. There is also the revelation at the end of the story that she has been keeping his body for over thirty years and sleeping with it, clearly demonstrating her overt desperation

The final reason as to why I believe Emily killed Homer is that she does not want to lose the most important person in her life a second time. When Emily's father, the most important and most influential person in her life, dies, Emily keeps the corpse in her house. The day after he dies all of the ladies come over to Emily's to offer their condolences. "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." Emily could not let go of him, so she keeps his dead body in her house. This same thing happens with Homer. Once she knows that Homer is the one, she poisons him with arsenic and then leaves him in the upstairs bedroom. When the townspeople find Homer's body, they make quite an interesting find. "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."

It is noted in the passage that “Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man” (4). First her father runs away men, then when a man finally comes around he is homosexual. One day Miss Emily goes to the druggist and says “I want arsenic” (3). It is after seeing this that the people in town started to think she was going to commit suicide (4). Homer barron leaves and returns after Miss Emily’s two cousins leave. The people in the town never see him again and they say “the one we believed would marry her … had deserted her. The body of Homer Barron was found on the bed with a piece of Miss Emily’s gray hair next to the body.

Homer entered her life by courting her publicly; by not wanting to marry her, he would have robbed her of her dignity and high-standing in the community. The ladies of the town felt that Miss Emily was not setting a good example for the "younger people" and their affair was becoming a "disgrace to the town" (75). The traditions, customs, and prejudices of the South doomed this affair from the beginning. Emily could not let Homer live, but she could not live without him. He was her only love. When she poisoned him with arsenic, she believed he would be hers forever.

Emily was obsessed with holding on to the past and to avoid change. When her father dies she is really sad. She then meets a man named Homer Barron. She is afraid she will lose him too because he is not the kind of guy to settle down. So if she kills him she could at least still be able to see him after he is dead because she will keep his dead body in her house. By her keeping the body in the house it shows she had a hard time of letting go. Emily kills because of her extreme love.

In her mind she is wanting to find someone who she could spend the rest of her life with but Homer is just wanting a fling and not a commitment. This is something that the citizens of Jefferson will worry about, as they feel that they must look after Emily since her father passing. The townspeople are like her parents and feel like it is in their best interest to look after her. This could make the reader show sympathy for Emily, rather than disliking her.

Faulkner states that Miss Emily would tell the other people that “her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly,'' (Faulkner 804). This part of the story foreshadows another incident where Emily again refuses to let go of the deceased. Instead of Emily not being able to let go of her father, this time she couldn't let go of her close friend, Homer. The hint of Emily not being able to let go of her father in the beginning serves as an indication for the reader that Miss Emily is very isolated and will do anything to prevent that. Emily’s suspicious actions causes the reader to anticipate certain happenings and wonder what will happen next.

The most obvious case of dramatic irony in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”, is simply the ending. In the ending, Jack Noonan and the rest of the police officers are eating the lamb that Mrs. Maloney cooked for her husband, the irony in this is that Mrs. Maloney killed her husband with that specific lamb’s leg, therefore, the officers do not know what the lamb was used for, while Mrs. Maloney and the audience does. Another good case of dramatic irony happens when Mrs. Maloney went to the grocery store. She spoke to the owner, Sam, about her husband as if he was alive and well, but in fact, she knew he was dead while Sam, the owner, did not. These two cases of dramatic irony were done well, the first case of dramatic irony added humor to

Tessie Hutchinson, has won the lottery, instead of being happy, she is full of dread. The lottery is meant for winning astonishing prizes and ,never to be heard of, amounts of money. Tessie Hutchinson has got the exact opposite of what's expected of winning the lottery. Her grand prize is to be stoned to death. By no other than her beloved family and amazing friends. This is situational Irony, an unexpected twist. Situational Irony makes the reader feel surprised, by some unfaithful or amazing event. O.Henry’s “ The Ransom of Red Chief”, uses humor to display situational irony, while Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” uses situational irony to prove justice. By examining these two short stories: “The Ransom of Red Chief” and “The Necklace” it is present how the author uses situational irony to change the what the reader feels about the character.

Surprise can often be good or bad, but it is always intriguing. Authors surprise their audiences by using a device called situational irony to make the story interesting. Situational irony can produce other emotions too. For example, O.Henry uses situational irony to produce an element of humor in “The Ransom of Red Chief”. Another example is in “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to produce and effect of justice. By examining these two stories , it is clear that authors utilize situational irony to affect the reader's emotions.

Homer Barron was also a very symbolic person in the story. He was a Yankee, and also a construction worker. He has a lower ascribed status and is not considered good enough for Miss Emily. The townspeople say "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such” (302). In spite of that, she fell in love with him and he ended up being her rival. When Miss Emily is looking for poison without giving a cause, and cashier writes “For rats” (303). Although the whole town thought that would kill herself. Emily is actually planning on killing Homer. Faulkner is comparing Homer to a rat that came to town and took advantage of Miss Emily and had no aim of marrying

Literature has always been an integral part of human society. It helped people to express their feelings and emotions and share thoughts that seem very important to them. That is why, since the beginning of the history of the mankind, authors tried to create some special and unique approach in order to create the artwork that could be able to impress a reader and create the needed atmosphere. This desire enriched the world literature with the great number of various stylistic devices and ways to express feelings and emotions. However, authors had never stopped and continued their experiments with the language of their works and plot ("Fabula and Sjuzhet" para. 1). Thus, speaking about the peculiarities of the contexture of various fiction works or books, it is possible to analyze the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner in order to understand the way in which the author could use various stylistic devices and combine them with the untraditional development of action.