A Rose for Emily
An Interpretation of William Faulkner's In the short story " A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner tells the sad story of a woman who has had an extremely sheltered life. It is a tragic story in which Miss Emily's hopes and dreams for a normal life are hopelessly lost. William Faulkner was simply writing a sad story that can be related to anyone who has had hopes and aspirations, but has conflict within themselves and with others and who is unable to fulfill any of them. Miss Emily is kept at home by her father and is almost hidden from the world. It is not said in the story, but it is assumed that Miss Emily's mother is deceased or no longer around. The reader is left with the impression that her father was uncaring, abusive, and arrogant. Apparently he kept Miss Emily hidden from fitting suitors and did not let her make a life of her own. After her fathers death, Miss Emily was emotional unstable. For three days after her father died, she refused to acknowledge his death. She wouldn't let the towns people dispose of his body. She then regressed when they finally came to take his body out (be
Homer then returned three days later and was seen coming into Miss Emily's back door. Although her crime of passion was sinful, the reader can still sympathize with her plight. She was taken advantage of not only by her father, but also by her lover and the townspeople who taunted her and used her as the center of their gossip. When she finally comes out in to the town again, she has cut off all of her hair trying to make herself look like a little girl. When Homer refused her request, she was disgraced and deeply hurt. During this time she meets Homer, a man the townspeople consider beneath her who seems to almost replace her father. After her burial, the room upstairs that had not been seen for forty years was opened to reveal what appeared to be a bridal suite. Perhaps because she was trying to regain stolen time by her father. The rotting corpse of a man in a nightshirt was all that was left in the bed. The couple did not appear for six months. At the age of seventy-four, her lifeless body was found in one of the down stairs beds. Found on the pillow was a long iron gray hair, which was Miss Emily's. cause of the horrible smell which all of the neighbors were complaining about). That was the last that was seen of him. Rumors spread that her new husband was a shadow of her father and would not let her out.
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