A Rose For Emily-symbolism
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 father's death was sort of
Homer was a 'commoner' and did not fit the social standards of her father. Everything in this room was Emily's rose, locked away for keeping, so she would not be left alone. Emily did carry her self with dignity and people gave her that respect, based from fear of what Emily could do to them. Emily's father probably would not be pleased with this affair with Homer,considering her upbringing. Once again, a fear of change, the fear of losing Homer and being left alone, she decided to poison him. Feeling that if she could not have him alive she thought she could keep him with her if he were dead and she did. The gossip around town was spreading; the townspeople said when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased, but vindicated; . Emily was a strong willed person especially when she went into the drug store for the arsenic. Indeed Emily took a great liking to Homer, but Homer's feelings about the relationship were different. She wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had materialized (221). 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). Homer was a Forman for a road construction company, Faulkner writes a forman named Homer Barron, a Yankee a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face(220).
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