Homer Baron's Character Analysis

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… we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy.(124)
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Which explains why she chose Homer Baron, a man from the North, she’s the one taking care of him, buying him gifts, the fact of him driving her in town reflects in her world a sign of dominion and power over him, she makes sure that he’s the one moving into her home and the fact of giving the illusion that he had gotten married to her and then left would not raise any questions and suspicions Homer had fallen into her trap he was the perfect bait. The town and Homer had fallen into Emily’s trap. Later after Miss Emily’s death, Homer’s body is discovered. In the second section we will relate the homer’s death with Miss

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