Essay about A rose for emily character analysis

This short story was quite interesting to me. I wondered what was happening many times. One thing I learned about the human condition while reading this was that love can change you. Emily was hurt when this man didn’t want to be with her anymore, and she wasn’t sure how to cope with hurting. Emily decided to kill this man. I believe she didn’t know how else to keep him in her life. “I want some poison.” She said to the druggist. (pg. 43) This woman was extremely adamant about getting the poison. We soon learn that she killed Homer Barron, and slept with his body for over 30 years. Emily’s father left her, and she felt that she could not cope with another man leaving her. The story finally made sense to me. She was so sad for so long. I don’t

With this discovery, Emily knew she could never have him and could not bear the thought of another man that she loved leaving her. This must have been the breaking point for her. Emily was determined not to let another man leave her for the third time. Therefore she purchased the arsenic so she could be with him forever. The last person to see Homer was a neighbor as the Negro man was admitting him in at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. Again, Emily submerged herself into the familiar calm of isolation until her death. After her funeral, the narrator (the town) paints the picture of their discovery in the room above the stairs. A room in which no one had seen in for forty years. “The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him…. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted

She was sad because she how stressed her parents were because they did not have enough money. She became even more sad when she realized her grandparents, that live right around the corner from them were in an even worse situation and had nobody to take care of them. Her mom used to work as a cleaning lady, which meant she had to sleep in the house she was working for, while her father was denied from every job he applied for. After a while, her dad got a job that paid the minimum wage, but it was better than nothing, she said. Her quit her job and stayed home with her

Her dad was literally all she had and when he died, all she had was the house to withhold the memory. Her father’s death took its toll on her emotionally because after he passed, she rarely left her house. She held onto his rapidly decaying body, even going as far as denying his death when confronted and refusing to dispose of the body despite doctor’s order. It took the threat of law and force for her to finally release her decrepit father. He sheltered her from having a love life which could have had adverse psychological effects.

She fights for his attention and acceptance throughout the story. This makes her turn weaker and weaker until the point where she does not care anymore and accepts the fact that she is a woman and consequently, inferior.

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.

her mother’s guilt; and she is forced to live without a father or other family.

William Faulkner; born in 1897, was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote short stories, novels, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. One of his most well-known short stories called “A Rose for Emily” tells a story about how a woman by the name of Emily Grierson poisons her husband, whose name is Homer Baron, and keeps his body in her house for several years. Nobody expects Miss Emily to be the suspect in Homer’s murder. Why did everyone overlook Emily as the suspect in the murder of Homer Baron? An analysis on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” suggests three reasons why everyone overlooked Emily as the suspect in the murder of Homer Baron, which are gender, love, and isolation.

She rewrites this statement several times to clarify the meaning it has to her and says, “All of these had everything to do with who I am today.”(first paragraph of “only daughter”). Reading and writing was not a challenge so to speak as it was for Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X, but it was the process of what she did with that skill that was difficult. Ever since she was in elementary school she knew she wanted to go to college, she shared this with her father and he was pleased. She misunderstood understanding and states later, “What I didn’t realize was that my father thought college was good for girls for finding a husband.”(third paragraph of “only daughter”). She says that all her writing was for him, for his approval, but the ironic part of this is that he barely read anything at all, and not a word of english. He worked with his hands and read things like magazines and comics, nothing too lengthy and hard. She says he would always tell them, “ “Use this,” my father said, tapping his head, “and not this,” showing us those hands. He always looked tired when he said it.” (tenth paragraph of “only daughter”). See he believed she was smart and could make something of herself but that was not the goal he expected her to reach. He was expecting her to find a husband and make a family, this was not the goal in her mind. She wanted to become a writer and make a career for herself. He wouldn’t interrupt her with her work except for the occasional “ What are you writing?” but she wanted him to interrupt, she felt at times that he didn’t care what she did as long as she got a husband in the end. This frustrated her beyond belief along with the fact that he would always say that he had “seven sons” but in spanish it translates to that but it really just means seven children. She took this to heart and mentions it several times to get the message across that she was offended. She later had one of her

Fate wreaked havoc in Emily's life, but Emily would change in her thinking. She ignored what was really happening to her and she started to set her mind on what an ideal life would be if she had a man in her life. When the neighbors learned of her father's death and came to offer their condolences, Emily when answering the door denied that her father was dead and guarded his corpse. She would not allow anyone who she thought would take him from her to enter the home. All of her life experiences thus far developed Emily into a recluse.  Emily Grierson was an aristocratic woman admired by her community, but the narrator named her a fallen monument. She did have a young man in her life named Homer Baron whom she loved. The town's people did not approve of Homer having a relationship with Emily. Homer is one who doesn't show much sympathy for others and was not admired by many because of his behavior and antics. He was loud and coarse in behavior and talked rough with no consideration for the feelings for whom surrounded him. He was a in a supervisor position on a project for paving

In an article written by Laura J. Getty, she discusses “the fact that people knew Homer was upstairs. Homer was a symbol of the little memory of her father that Emily held on to” (Getty,

For instance People would come to Emily’s residence to send their condolences but she would keep in her mind and tell people who visit her that her father is still alive and well. Later, she became the center of attention throughout their southern town as the ministers and doctors try to convince her to bury her father’s body. she “became pity, a pauper and she became humanized” (William Faulkner 137). Emily, an outcast from the town as she served as a source of gossip for the townspeople. However, Emily is seemingly in love with Homer Barron, a man hired as a supervisor to give direction to town contractors. He’s a man with sociable nature and a good since of humor to those around him. Emily has been planning to marry Homer as she still griefs over her father’s death. On the other hand Emily sees Homer giving more attention to a man than her in which she seemed jealous. Nonetheless, as the story progresses, the Emily killed homer with poison, Later the townspeople discover Emily poisoned Homer kept it secretive of his death but the bad smell was creeping around Emily’s house, but later the people found out that she is keeping homer dead body under her bed. Emily house was so smelly that the townspeople sprayed lime and chemicals to subside the smell. Than they found out Emily had died in the house next to homers dead

In the same way that Emily’s father regulated her own life, she expresses this same control over Homer— in hopes of maintaining her newfound happiness. The narrator affirms one aspect of control that Emily expresses: “…within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron” (Faulkner 82). In this scenario, Emily illustrates her inability to let Homer leave her by forcing him at her house. Irrational control cannot be present in order for a healthy, productive relationship. Even worse, readers discover at the end of the story that Emily is satisfied when she finally achieves full control over Homer. The narrator exclaims, “The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin” (Faulkner 83). Emily, who is never satisfied with her control over Homer, did the one thing she thought was best in order to make him a part of her life forever. Faulkner considers Emily a subject of pity because she feels she had to go to extremities—murdering her “true love”— to achieve

Emily did not like change in her life because when her father died she refused to say her father was died for three days. Also when the community was updating their mail system she did not want them to place a mail box on her door. Emily wanted someone to be with her because she felt alone after her father died and lover leaving her after her father died. When Homer came into her life she did not want to let him go so she killed him and preserved him in the Bridal room as a good memory. Emily kills Homer to have someone to be with her all the time even though she had a servant with her. Emily’s father brought her up on the belief that they were above everybody else because the het father was a southern captain during the civil

She is in deep thought of her husband and the upcoming of her family. “And I am fond of him,of course. I think I even love him. But strictly speaking, I don’t actually like him.”(pg.78) She seems to love him for the person he is on the inside being a kind father and husband but doesn’t actually like him on the outside or generally speaking about his looks, and on top of that cutting herself short because of his dislikes. She can not express herself to her husband because her husband is ignorant to her interests and who she is. “I was the third of five children, and both of my parents worked, so nobody paid much attention to me.”(pg.87) As a child she was neglected as the middle child, and only had such little she liked to actually do, this probably affected her in the long run as she started to believe she deserved what she got and should accept it as it is. Early in the morning the first night she couldn’t go to sleep she was contemplating whether she should be up or confront the fact she can’t sleep. “Now I’m a wife. A mother. I have responsibilities.”(pg.88) She feels obligated in her role as a family member, and is trying to cut herself short at this point. When the relationships you have around you become the reason you abandoned yourself, it becomes harder to ground yourself even as the role you