A Rose for Emily
In "A Rose for Emily" William Faulkner writes about two lovers, Emily Grierson and Homer Barron, with conflicting personalities that eventually leads up to Emily poisoning Homer in his sleep. Faulkner discusses their dissimilar social backgrounds and emotional behaviors as well as symbolizing Emily with "the old times" and Homer with "the new times." Emily Grierson was the daughter of a wealthy man of high social class in a southern town called Jefferson. He was a very overbearing man that didn't allow her to see men for any reason at all. He kept her locked away inside the house and never let her leave his side. The townspeople believed the Griersons thought of themselves too highly, that no man was good enough for Miss Emily. They thought of the Griersons as "tableau" or "fake." Soon her father died and when the woman came to pay their condolences Emily looked at them with no expression of grief on her face, she didn't believe her father was dead. After three days of convincing, Emily finally allowed the townspeople to remove her father from the house and they buried him. In a way the townspeople were glad, they were able to pity Emily. All she had left was the house, and the townspeople didn't think she was crazy for what s
The town believed that the only man that would have married Emily had deserted her. One day Emily was seen buying arsenic from the drug store and the town was worried she was going to kill herself. The town was sure they were to be married, they were glad. She had sealed off the entire top floor of the house, and when the town stared to get postal delivery, she refused to have a mailbox and numbers put up on her house. Soon Homer knew everybody in town and he was seen out driving with Emily. Who's at fault for the death of Homer Barron. On the bed was Homer, or what was left of Homer, dressed in a nightshirt. "# But soon the ladies began to say, "Poor Emily," because they knew Homer was not a marrying man, he said so himself at the Elks' Club. Homer hadn't deserted Emily after all, she feared he was going to leave her and she couldn't accept it. " The summer after the death of Emily's father, the town signed a contract to have the sidewalks paved. A week later he returned as the town predicted but after that he was never seen again. Emily was seen at a jeweler's buying a sliver toilet set for Homer with his initials engraved on every piece.
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