Similarities Between A Rose For Emily By Andre Dubus

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is a story of a woman who not only poisons and kills her lover, Homer Barron, but she keeps his rotting corpse in her bedroom and sleeps next to it for many years. Killings by Andre Dubus is a short story in which, Dubus invites his readers to ponder the disparity between people’s ethical responsibility to society and the primal urge to protect and avenge their loved ones after Matt says he has to take care of the situation because it is too hard on Ruth, but the reader may wonder if that is just his excuse. Emily murders her husband and leaves his corpse to rot in there bed possibly due to her instabilities. In Killings Matt commits murder in a revengeful manner. Although Emily may have been a unstable necrophiliac, Matt had a somewhat understandable motive behind his decisions. …show more content…
“ touched Strouts head once with the muzzle (Dubus 66.)” this shows his insanity as he begins to go out with the murder “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair” This shows Emily's insanity by providing a description of what it was like for her dead husband to lay there and rot for years. Both Emily and Matt suffered throughout the story, they were overwhelmed with anger at times as well. Matt suffered the loss of his youngest son Frank and out of extreme anger he kills the man who murdered