What Is The Significance Of Homer's Death In A Rose For Emily

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."

Emily’s father, as well as the people of Jefferson, had always pressured Emily to marry. Her father was never able to find a match for her though, and he eventually passed. Emily then met Homer Barron, a contract worker for the town. They begin to see each other more often, and the townspeople are shocked that Emily would lower herself to being with a man of low class. This shows a bit of irony, in that there has always been pressure for Emily to marry, yet when she finally meets a man she loves, people think she is wrong in her decision. Another piece of irony in this relationship, comes after Emily dies. The body of Homer Barron is found in the attic of Emily’s home. Next to the body are signs that Emily had been sleeping next the corpse. It can be assumed that Emily did murder Homer with the arsenic she had purchased earlier in the story. It

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” starts out at Emily’s funeral and then goes onto a story about taxes, which Miss Emily is exempt from paying for life by Colonel Sartoris. During her life, Miss Emily’s father kept her isolated and ran off any potential suitors with a horsewhip. When her father died, Miss Emily refused to acknowledge the fact for three days. Soon after, Miss Emily met and started dating Homer Barron, “a northerner and a day laborer.” The town goes from being happy about the relationship to thinking of it as indecent. Homer seemingly deserted Miss Emily shortly after she bought poison. All is quiet for the next 40 years until Miss Emily’s death when Homer’s corpse is found sealed in an upstairs room (Faulkner 323-327). This paints a picture of a lonely, desperate woman. Miss Emily was isolated with just a butler for company. That does not make her a murder. Emily Grierson is innocent of murder because any evidence is circumstantial or illegally obtained, Tobe cared for Miss Emily enough to kill for her, and Miss Emily is legally insane.

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.

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In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily Grierson, referred to as Miss Emily throughout the story, is the main character of 'A Rose for Emily'. Emily used to live with her father and servants, in a big decorated house. Emily was not able to develop any real relationship with anyone else, but it was like her world revolved around her father. When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Miss Emily. Instead of going on with her life, her life halted after death of her father. Miss Emily found love in a guy named Homer Barron, who came as a contractor for paving the sidewalks in town. The passed passage of time creates a tension in her life. At first she cannot accept the death of her father. After that she creates tension in the community by refusing to pay the taxes. When Emily proposed Homer Barron

Emily is destroyed by her father's over-protectiveness. He prevents her from courting anyone as "none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such" (82). When her father dies, Emily refuses to acknowledge his death; "[W]ith nothing left, she . . . [had] to cling to that which had robbed her" (83). When she finally begins a relationship after his death, she unfortunately falls for Homer

Have you ever said you wanted to kill someone but you did not mean it literally? Well I'm sure everyone at some point in their lives has said that but no one actually does, except Emily. In the story "A Rose for Emily" a man named Homer Barron entered the house of a woman and was never seen again.

Her relationship with her father is a total mystery, however it’s well implied that their relationship was more than the typical normal father and daughter relationship. For this reason the community wasn’t at all shocked that Emily was single and turning thirty. In denial about her father’s death, she refused to le the townspeople remove the body for three days. Once she met Homer Barron, Emily begins an undesirable affair. Many of the town people were happy she was with someone. Though it is soon found that Homer played for the other team, Emily goes to the pharmacist for poison, it is then that the townspeople think that she will kill herself. After buying the arsenic, the next time they see her it’s stated, “she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray” (Faulkner 521). This perhaps the result of Homer Barron’s murder and the loss of her dad. At seventy four years old, Emily died in her home “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight” (Faulkner 521). The major plot twist is that the townspeople find Homer Barron in a bedroom upstairs, lying in a lover’s embrace, with the indentation of a head upon the pillow next to him and one “long strand of iron gray hair” (Faulkner 522). Ms. Emily is “jilted” by the death of her father and Homer Barron leaving her. Since her father isolated her so well

            The insanity of Miss Emily is also foretold in A Rose for Emily.  When the body of Homer is found in her bed, the reader can understand that Emily killed him, because her mental stability had been questioned a number of times.  The narrator begins these allusions to her mental state when he tells how the mayor, Colonel Sartoris, bestows a special tax exemption upon Miss Emily.  Colonel Sartoris makes up a story so unbelievable that it is described as so outlandish that "only a woman could have believed it".  Later, the townspeople talk about her great-aunt, the lady Wyatt, who had gone completely crazy.  They wonder about "poor Emily" with the insanity in her family.  Her mental state comes into question again when the town removes the body of her father.  She is said to have "broke down" and finally let them in to take and bury the body.  This is an obvious analogy to her having a mental breakdown.  This is followed with the statement that the townspeople did

"A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner presents a story that a women named Emily Grierson, who had been protected and controlled by her father and her father also handles mental abuse of his headstrong character in most of the her life time. And then she did not have fully experience life and her father's rule led Emily not to deal with modern society and a stable normal life. Faulkner wrote about love and it can affect a person. Miss Emily's father lost a huge blow to her, her father was the only one to love her.

In the story “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, Emily is described as a mysterious woman whom was an outsider to the whole town. Throughout her whole life her father turned away any man who potentially would marry Emily which left her alone after his death. Until Homer Barron came along—Emily had finally found a man. The town did not know Emily was crazy yet. After she met Homer, the town thought nothing of the events after her father’s death. Emily was happy and not as crazy anymore, or so the town thought—that was until Emily died and they found Homer’s dead body in her bed. In the story Falkner states, “We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a wonderful mystery full of incomplete information. After meeting a man named Homer Barron, Miss Emily falls in love and refuses to let him go. Miss Emily presents Homer with a proposal: to either marry her or not; when it does not go as planned Miss Emily murders Homer. This is made apparent through the purchases Miss Emily makes before Homer goes missing, the arrangement of the room Homer’s body was discovered in, and the pillow beside his body.

Emily Grierson loses two loved ones, her father and the man she loved, Homer Barron. Doña Ernestina loses her husband and her son. The two characters live a lonely and isolated life. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily’s father separates her from society and makes sure she has no lovers. When he dies, she has to accept the reality that she has no one and has to find her role in society instead of being an outcast. The story does not mention any siblings or her mother, giving off the appearance that she is isolated and disconnected. Emily lives in a big house alone. Emily refuses to acknowledge that her father dies, so the town has to pester Emily for her father’s burial. She finally breaks down and buries her father. Emily stays in the house for several months, aging as time comes along. She meets Homer Barron and falls in love with him but finds out he has no interest in her. The townspeople pity her, saying ““Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her””(Faulkner 180) because they know she seeks a lover. When she meets Homer Barron, she kills him. After Emily’s death the townspeople think that she has been sleeping next to Homer‘s dead body. Emily does this because she does not want to sleep alone because it means she is alone. In Nada, Doña Ernestina is also left in isolation with no remaining family; not only having to deal with her husband’s death, but later she has to deal with her son’s death leading her to more depression. Now, she feels she has “nada”, meaning nothing. She dresses in full mourning attire but does not break down or cry. She thinks she has no one; however, she does have the ladies in her apartment who want to comfort her. The people in her

Faulkner’s tail of “A Rose for Emily ” is a tail of thousand stories. Set up in the old south, at the same time it intrigues you and dazzles you. It tells the story of a daughter from an upper class family that ends up killing her male companion, Homer Baron. A motive for killing him is not stated in the story, but if red carefully one could be implied. Critiques disagree on what might have motived Emily to kill homer. Some say it was because he intended to leave her and others relate it to the fact that he was not the steeling type. Yet some critique have explored the idea that homer may be gay and believe that is what have aggravated Emily and led her to kill him. Yet, Judith Fetterley and Jack Scherting both have the consent of Emily Grierson's motive in order to kill Homer Barron which is stemmed from her fear of dying old and unloved.(attach make one sentence)Emily rather had been with a dead man instead of being by herself.