Comfllict in Rose for Emily

Emily Grierson would find it difficult to sustain a mea

Homer Baron's personality was in total contrast with Emily's. He was a vulgar day laborer from the north who hung around town's people especially the young men. He was not liked because he was a Northerner and was considered an enemy by the south because of the Civil War. Homer was displayed as being loud and vulgur. This can be seen when Faulkner writes,"the little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers, pretty soon he knew everybody in town, whenever you heard laughing wnywhere about the square, Homer would be in the center of the group.

This tragic ending was accepeted because Emily and Homer were two diffrent world's and so could not stay together. Even thier personalities were contrasting each other.

Knowing the background of the two characters, I found it rather strange and even unbelieveable that Emily would have fallen for a character such as Ho

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