Necrophilia A Rose For Emily

A Rose for Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner in 1931. The story takes place in a fictional city called Jefferson, Mississippi. The story starts with the end telling about Emily Grierson’s death. Following that, it jumps to the beginning where her father dies. Next it jumps to when she is very ill before death. Followed by Homer rejecting here which was before that. Then finally to her own death. Emily lived with her controlling father, he never let her date or marry anyone. When he died, Emily didn’t rid her home of his body for 3 days. Next, Emily kept herself locked away from everyone else. A young man named Homer Barron came into town from up north to pave sidewalks. Emily ended up becoming friendly with this man. Her cousins, who aren’t on good terms with her, come to town to find out what’s going on.
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He was very strict on her even when she got older. Emily was raised this way and took a notice of his control and though she never fought the control, she ended up just like him in a sense that she demanded control over the one she ‘loved.’ A lot of people associate Emily with necrophilia. Necrophilia derives from the words ‘necro-’, which means “relating to a corpse or death, and ‘–philia,’ which means “denoting fondness, especially an abnormal love for a specified thing.” So necrophilia is defined as “an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies.” (“Necrophilia”). In the end of the story, after she is dead, the town people find her husband’s corps in a locked room in the house. The pillow next to the corpse has an indent from a head and a grey hair. Now, is this proof that she was necrophilic? Not exactly only because we don’t know when she started laying with him. She could have only lain with him her last night alive if she knew she was going to die the next day. But, popular opinion would have her labeled