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Unrequited love is a painful experience that it hurts for people who loves or is loved. After reading these stories: Killing, A Rose for Emily, The story of an hour, unrequited love is very dangerous to a person that feels they are not loved from others. They are sad stories but let look at “Killing”: father lost his son, “A rose for Emily”: kill boyfriend so she can be with him forever, “The story of hour”: feel happiness in one hour before she dies because of disappointed.

Killing is a short story of a father’ love for his son but he changed his emotion at the end of hunting a murderer. Instead of have satisfaction after killed a murderer, Matt, a father feels lonely and isolation. His son, Frank, got killed by Richard Strout who divorced Frank’s girlfriend. This is a sad story with lots of emotional. A mother with broken heart and a father is between what right to do or contemplate crime. Matt and Richard are the victim and murderers of the story. The story focuses on revenge and justice. Going after someone, kill someone after what they did is not always the answer for the loss of that person. It doesn’t solve the problems, it’s just getting worse. We look for justice, Richard is being let out on bail and showing him without any punishments make us feel that he deserved it.

Emily in “A Rose for Emily” is mysterious, devastated and lonely after her father’s death. She spends time with her boyfriend Homer Barron after that. But years after years the chance for them to get married is getting smaller and smaller. Miss Emily’ father forbids her to date socially. She becomes so terribly desperate for human love. Because of her life, her father that controlled her, Emily is insane, driven mad, the mysterious is behind the bedroom door. Madness evident lies in the room. A woman can love a guy, spend so much time with him, but at the end when she find out that he doesn’t plan on married her or love her that much. It becomes jealous, guilty and

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