A Rose For Emily

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A Rose for Emily, must be the last rose that was presented to Emily’s lifeless body in her eternal state. This story from my perspective, paints a picture in my mind on how Miss Emily Grierson’s life unfolds from a third person’s point of view. The story starts off with Emily being kept in her house by her father. Emily’s father eventually dies and Emily cannot let go of her father’s ephemeral life. Emily stays inside the house for a period of time until she eventually musters the courage to go outside where she meets Homer Barron, a homosexual. Emily and Homer ride around town in his buggy leading everybody in town to think that she will marry him. Suddenly Homer disappears and is not seen again until the end of the story, where Homer’s lifeless body is found in Emily’s home. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the story using the moral and intellectual approach method.
According to what I read, the moral of the story is; you should let go if a loved one passes away. That is why as human beings we go through bereavement. Consistent with the text, “She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.”(Faulkner, 104). It is good to cry in a time of grief, it is the first step in the process of acceptance of death of a loved one.
To help me live a better life, as stated by the text, ‘ “I want some poison,” she said to the druggist. “Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I’d recom-” “I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind.” ’ (Faulkner, 105). The way I perceive this excerpt is that rejections from the opposite sex are sometimes hard to take, but sometimes fatal-attraction occurs. There have been many cases in my life, in which the hurt party has taken away the life of the one that they mostly loved because of rejection.
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