The loving home of Emily Grierson was once calm and peaceful. Until one unfaithful night , Emily had concocted a plan to kill her “boyfriend,” Homer, with arsenic. After her father had been dead for a while, she couldn’t stand to be alone again. She slept with the corpse of Homer for 10 years with the house smelling of rotten corpse. The symbols of A Rose for Emily would be Homer, arsenic and the house. Homer in A Rose for Emily is a symbol by showing what love can do. It can drive people insane. An example of this is would be on page 724, “ At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, ‘ Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer’ (page 724).” After that situation
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This is because death can come upon you at any given moment but a woman such as Emily herself can be very fatal. Therefore she received the poison, knowing her intentions to end his life for love, she has chosen sweet death upon her and Homer. Without Homer she felt alone with her father also leaving her not too long ago. She was in need of love and to feel accompanied by anything possible. To prove that this is sweet death upon both of them, on page 727, “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 (page 727).” This shows that she stayed in the bed with him until she soon passed away after 10 years of living with the rotten corpse. The house in A Rose for Emily is a symbol of safety and secrets kept in the dark. An example of this would be the Negro man knew what she had done but still kept her secret. Another one would be people wondering what the stench was coming from the house but they did not wish to come in, which kept the secret of the dead corpse of Homer Barron. She never truly believed that her father was dead either and tried to keep him contained in the house as much as possible because she felt safe with his comfort of his dead
This is because death can come upon you at any given moment but a woman such as Emily herself can be very fatal. Therefore she received the poison, knowing her intentions to end his life for love, she has chosen sweet death upon her and Homer. Without Homer she felt alone with her father also leaving her not too long ago. She was in need of love and to feel accompanied by anything possible. To prove that this is sweet death upon both of them, on page 727, “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 (page 727).” This shows that she stayed in the bed with him until she soon passed away after 10 years of living with the rotten corpse. The house in A Rose for Emily is a symbol of safety and secrets kept in the dark. An example of this would be the Negro man knew what she had done but still kept her secret. Another one would be people wondering what the stench was coming from the house but they did not wish to come in, which kept the secret of the dead corpse of Homer Barron. She never truly believed that her father was dead either and tried to keep him contained in the house as much as possible because she felt safe with his comfort of his dead