A Rose For Emily Reputation Essay

“It takes many good deeds to build a reputation, and only one bad one to lose it” (Benjamin Franklin). Reputation is one of the most important things in our life, it can take many years to build up and only a small amount of time to lose it. Miss Emily will battle between love and reputation. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” enforces the conflict between love and reputation through Miss Emily and Homer Barron, and Miss Emily and the townsmen.
One of the main conflicts is between Miss Emily and Homer Barron. Miss Emily murdered Homer for many different reasons. Homer was a rat, in fact it was hinted to us in the story when Miss Emily bought the poison and under it said “For Rats”(3). Usually when you describe someone as a rat means that you dislike that person. It also means that Homer has cheated or betrayed Miss Emily. Secondly Homer Barron did not want to marry Miss Emily. For instance in the story it said “he drank with younger men in the Elks’ Club-that he was not a marrying man”(3). Homer never wanted to get married because he forever wanted to stay young and meet new women. For Emily it felt like she was being rejected, which probably made her very angry, which probably lead to the murder of Homer. The second main problem is between Miss Emily and the townsmen.The townsmen disliked Homer because they thought of him as an outsider because he was from the north. At that time
Secondly the townsmen were aggravated by Miss Emily. The townsmen were not happy because Miss Emily was in a relationship with a northerner. They thought it brought shame to town because he was an outsider and it was a bad example to the young. In conclusion Miss Emily is trying to cling on to Homer, and she did by murdering him and keeping him in her house, also the townsmen have a problem with Miss Emily because she is with a northerner and they think of him as an