In the short story, “A Rose for Emily,” the protagonist, Emily, tries to control her life using the power of death. The story beings by the narrator describing Emily’s funeral. Many people come out of curiosity for what her hidden life pertained to. “When Miss Emily Grierson died, out whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one… had seen in at least ten years”(Faulkner 82). Emily had been kept distant from the people of the town and potential suitors because of her father, the antagonist, didn’t think they were good enough for her. He sheltered her for her entire life. When her father died, all that was left
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It makes sense to think this because to her death is like power. She would be able to controls her life; the years prior her father had ran her life. Not leaving any decisions for Emily he made all the decisions for her regarding everything. Suicide would be a way for her to take all her decisions in her own hands. She was receiving scrutiny for her relations with Homer.
“A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time”(Faulkner 86). Emily killed Homer Barron. She had put him into her attic and set up a room for him. She visited him often, after her death the people found a long grey hair on the pillow beside his decayed body. She was afraid of loosing him and killed him to keep him close. Emily has her own strange idea of what love is. She used the power of death to keep her loved ones, Homer and her Father, close even after their death.
Fairholm 2
In William Faulkner’s short story Emily attempts to gain control over her own life by using the power of death. She has her own way of loving people. She denies death and still believes the dead bodies of her loved ones are still alive. She laid next to Homer’s dead corpse for many years and treated him as if he were still alive. Everyone has their own idea of love, but Emily’s is darker than
It makes sense to think this because to her death is like power. She would be able to controls her life; the years prior her father had ran her life. Not leaving any decisions for Emily he made all the decisions for her regarding everything. Suicide would be a way for her to take all her decisions in her own hands. She was receiving scrutiny for her relations with Homer.
“A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time”(Faulkner 86). Emily killed Homer Barron. She had put him into her attic and set up a room for him. She visited him often, after her death the people found a long grey hair on the pillow beside his decayed body. She was afraid of loosing him and killed him to keep him close. Emily has her own strange idea of what love is. She used the power of death to keep her loved ones, Homer and her Father, close even after their death.
Fairholm 2
In William Faulkner’s short story Emily attempts to gain control over her own life by using the power of death. She has her own way of loving people. She denies death and still believes the dead bodies of her loved ones are still alive. She laid next to Homer’s dead corpse for many years and treated him as if he were still alive. Everyone has their own idea of love, but Emily’s is darker than