A Rose for Emily
The story "A Rose for Emily" was William Faulkner's first published in 1930. This story could be called a horror story and even physiological short story (281). The story is about Emily Grierson, a woman whose life is by a narrator that is unknown, it could possibly be someone whom knew Emily; this narrator represents the attitudes, ideas, and the gossip of the community. Emily became deeply depressed by the death of her father. It wasn't until his she meet a Northerner by the name of Homer Barron. When she is faced with no love from Homer, she murdered him by arsenic poison, possibly after she found out that he liked men, and she was used by him so the townsman would not know of his sexuality, more or less so the townsmen wouldn't know he was gay. It was discovered after Emily's death and the upstairs bedroom was forced open that Homer's corpse was found in a embrace from forty years before and a strand of gray hair lying on the pillow beside him. Remembering the relationship of Emily with her father, her place in the community and her problem with reality, the present and the past, the character is told about Miss Emily in the story. The Grierson family had a streak of insanity and
Colonel Sartoris had been dead for nearly ten years. The present is found though the narrator, the new Board of Aldermen, and in Homer Barron. She must come to terms with the past and the present. At last they could pity Miss Emily. She does not kill herself, clearly Homer Barron had not married her, and it seemed like he had left town for good (286-287). Emily lived in the past, always a world of unreality to the people in the present. Miss Emily's large Southern house and her battle to change gradually came. Jefferson is smugly pleased at possessing a symbol of a long gone, but honorable time; when Miss Emily dies; she becomes their "fallen monument" (281-289). Emily is a source of mystery for the community due to the strangeness of her behavior made by her loneliness and struggle to change. In conclusion, Miss Emily Grierson is a victim of her own pride. Emily's place in regard to the specific problem of time is shown in the scene where the old soldiers appear at her funeral. The narrator is notes that Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened the room, discovered what was left of her lover from over forty years before. "Had Miss Emily lived alone for so long that she had not heard that he was dead? It was the past against the present - the past with its social interpretations, the present with everything set down in by book. The Grierson's held their heads high, some of the townspeople felt they held third heads too high.
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