1. Why does Emily kill her love?
... Emily Dickinson, who was born a generation before Miss Emily. Just like Miss Emily, Dickinson isolated herself from the society and mourned her love in a room. Another example is Miss Havisham, who locked herself in a wedding-decorated room after rejection, from Charles Dickens' The Great Expectation. Only women of the time will behave that way. In today's society, there is no other Emily ... men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house for years, with many mysterious events happened through times ("A Rose for Emily-). Althoug...
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- Grade Level: High School