... then deserting her, Emily would have once again been cut short of having a regular life. Once again, a fear of change came over her. The fear of losing Homer and being left alone was too much for her to bear so she decided to poison him. Feeling that if she could not have him alive she thought she could keep him with her ... death could separate them. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly s! aw her at all."( Faulkner Pg 82) Emily retreated to her "rose tinted" world of death and the past. This was hopeless because even Emily, w...

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... way, she begins to withdraw inside herself and become dependant upon her father. This is evident in the story when Faulkner writes, " Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her clutching a horsewhip, the two of framed by the back-flung front door"(105). Her father's plan had worked. She did not go against her father ... her true feelings and emotions; they had found Homer Barron's remains lying on the bed where it looked like he had fallen asleep. Next to him they also found evidence that she has taken com...

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... Homer Barron, his name shows irony because he is the new generation coming into the town. As Homer Barron symbolizes the new generation Miss Emily doesn't want to lose to the new generation and her love so she buys the arsenic. Miss Emily becomes mentally ill as she buys the arsenic to kill Homer Barron because she cannot bear to give up their relationship. Miss Emily keeps ... the corpse in her bed as for the denial in death that she has towards her father. Homer became the irony for Emily and she didn't want that to happen as she had strong feelings for him so she killed him and kept ...

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