A Rose For Emily Literary Analysis Essay
A Grade for Huy Emptiness is the feeling you get at 2 A.M when you look at your old Facebook photos, smiling at the old photos of yourself, and realize the people who made you smile, laugh, and giggle are no longer around. You look at these photos as a journey down memory lane but in reality deep down somewhere, you wish you could experience these moments just once more. There’s nothing wrong with having a glance at the past but substituting the past for the present and yearning for it is dangerous. The past has a captivating effect that makes us fall in love it because it helps ignite a sense of happiness and comfortability. You can see the idea of never wanting to let go of the past go in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. “A Rose
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At first glance, the couple seem to be hitting it off because they went on their Sunday afternoon rides and at one point people thought they were eventually going to tie the knot “… after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart – the one we believed would marry her – had deserted her.” They were essentially the couple that everyone talked about through town even if it wasn’t positive publicity. But as slanderous rumors continue to spread and Emily’s reputation continue to be compromised, she eventually decides to poison Homer with Arsenic. I think we can agree, that it’s a little too drastic. By this point in the story, it was clear that the couple wouldn’t work out because of two simple reasons. One, they were having an affair and everyone in town wasn’t a fan and two, their relationship was deemed lowly because Emily is with a man whose social class is far beneath hers. Instead of walking away from the rumors or just ignoring them, she decides the best thing to do is murder by poison. The crime is classified as a crime of passion by Fisher because Emily isn’t able to have homer because of society’s judgement. The death of Homer is a message from Emily saying “If I cannot have you then no one will” and she proceeded by providing Homer with an ultimatum,
At first glance, the couple seem to be hitting it off because they went on their Sunday afternoon rides and at one point people thought they were eventually going to tie the knot “… after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart – the one we believed would marry her – had deserted her.” They were essentially the couple that everyone talked about through town even if it wasn’t positive publicity. But as slanderous rumors continue to spread and Emily’s reputation continue to be compromised, she eventually decides to poison Homer with Arsenic. I think we can agree, that it’s a little too drastic. By this point in the story, it was clear that the couple wouldn’t work out because of two simple reasons. One, they were having an affair and everyone in town wasn’t a fan and two, their relationship was deemed lowly because Emily is with a man whose social class is far beneath hers. Instead of walking away from the rumors or just ignoring them, she decides the best thing to do is murder by poison. The crime is classified as a crime of passion by Fisher because Emily isn’t able to have homer because of society’s judgement. The death of Homer is a message from Emily saying “If I cannot have you then no one will” and she proceeded by providing Homer with an ultimatum,