A Rose for Emily
In the story A Rose for Emily, Homer Barron was the foreman of a construction company. He was also the first real change Emily ever experienced. The town around her was advancing with the times, illustrated by the "garages and cotton gins" that had "encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood", yet Emily's weathered house stood there unchanged. "The new generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town" and yet Emily still maintained her ironclad grasp on the past and the way things u
Yet this relationship seemed to set her free of her hermit-like lifestyle. Every time it seemed she might escape from her false sense of reality something in her life comes crashing down. When it seemed that Homer left to see another woman, Emily was pushed back into her reclusive self. "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head . It almost looked as if Emily might finally release her grip on the past and begin to move forward in life. " By sleeping with the decayed corpse of Homer Barron we find that she is so caught up in the past that she could not even allow the people she loved to progress. Emily was then seen purchasing arsenic from a drug store. "And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. Emily's relationship with the middle class Homer was looked down upon with some people saying that, "even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige". That along with the fact that Homer admitted to not being a "marrying man" drove her near to the point of insanity.
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