Emily Grierson is a black woman who had hard life. Everything that she loved left her, Her father probably impressed upon her that every man she met was no good for her. The townspeople even said “when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad…being left alone…She had become humanized” ( Faulkner, 459). For Emily, her fathers death, in a way, gave her freedom, which allowed her to begin to date men of her choice. Emily’s

father couldn’t violate her life with his strict mentality anymore.

Even though Emily didn’t go out much, she did have a gentleman friend, Homer Barron. Homer was a spokesman for a road construction company, “a forman named Homer Barron, a Yankee—a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face”(462). Emily’s father probably would not be pleased with her relationship with Homer, considering the way she was raised. Homer was a ‘commoner’ and did not fit the social standards of her father. Emily, like most of the women dreamt of getting married and having a family and most of all, being loved. The towns people said Emily wanted to be loved, and she was determined that Homer would be her true love to rescue her from fear, fear of being alone. Emily Liked Homer, but Homer’s feelings about the relationship were different. It was said that “even Homer himself had remarked he liked men, and it was known that he drunk with younger men in the Elk’s club--that he was not a marrying man”

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