A Rose for emily
Life is fickle and most people will be a victim of circumstance and the times. Some people choose not to let circumstance rule them and, as they say, "time waits for no man". Faulkner's Emily did not have the individual confidence, or maybe self-esteem and self-worth, to believe that she could stand alone and succeed at life especially in the face of changing times. She had always been ruled by, and depended on, men to protect, defend and act for her. From her Father, through the manservant Tobe, to Homer Barron, all her life was dependent on men. The few flashes of individuality showed her ability to rise to the occasion, to overcome her dependency, when the action was the only solution available. Like buying the poison or getting money by offering china-painting classes. Life is sad and tragic; some of which is made for us and some of which we make ourselves.Emily had a hard life. Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably impressed upon her that every man she met was no good for her. The townspeople even state "when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her fat
Unfortunately, for Emily she became home bound. Her father couldn't chase them off any more. Now since the passing of her father she may be like them, a middle class working person. "Upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded light" (223). In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Emily wanted to be loved, and she was determined that Homer would be her true love to rescue her from fear, fear of being alone. Emily's father probably would not be pleased with this affair with Homer, considering her upbringing. The cliche "as seen through rose colored glasses" comes to mind. Homer dead, all those years, among the rose colored room. It was rumored that "even Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drunk with younger men in the Elk's clubthat he was not a marrying man" (221). ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Once again, a fear of change, the fear of losing Homer and being left alone, she decided to poison him. These rose colored items gave the room an artificial rose like color.
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