A Rose for Emily: Dreadful Ending

“A Rose for Emily” is the story of a peculiar spinster, Emily Grierson. An identified narrator fine points in the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her anomalous relationships with her father, her lover, and the town of Jefferson, and the horrible secret she withholds from everybody. The story’s delicate complexities continue to inspire critics while laid back readers find it one of Faulkner’s most accessible works. The reputation of the story is due in no small part to its dreadful ending.
Upon the death of her father, she became lonely and a depressed woman who only wanted to meet somebody that would love her and marry her in the end. Her father’s death haunts her soul of how her father never satisfies with any man that would court her. Her father wanted her to stay home and be a servant to him. Her father died and left her nothing. Colonel Sartoris made-up a story explaining the remittance of Emily’s taxes, it is because he owed Emily’s father some money and it is a method of paying back a loan to her father and to save her from embarrassment of accepting hand-outs. Emily is a type of woman who was deprived by her father to marry a man. Emily’s aspiration to find love and then to get married and have a family, but her father, a selfish man who didn’t want her to leave the house because he wanted her to be the housekeeper for himself. After her father died, she became distant from her community.
When Homer Barron arrives on her life, she had thought that this would be an opportunity to marry a man that would love her and marry her. “Homer a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face.” A Northerner, he has come south to Jefferson as a foreman helping to pave the sidewalks. The town’s people began expressing pity to Ms. Emily; Homer, being a Northerner, is not considered a proper match for a Southerner woman such as Miss Emily. A true Southerner lady would only consider a Southerner white man of similar social standing. It