Similarities Between A Rose For Emily And The Great Gatsby

In the 1920’s, the era of the American Modernist movement, literary works, such as William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” explore themes of challenging incontestable realities through the characters’ egocentric desires towards love. In the story A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily Grierson yearns for a loving relationship, driven by both desire and fear of remaining alone to forcibly attain it. After her father’s death, Emily attempts to fill the emotional void in her life by marrying Homer Barron, a man uninterested in a married life. Unable to accept Homer’s refusal, Emily purchases rat poison from the local pharmacy and Homer disappears after last being seen on the Grierson estates. As the