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Miss Emily Kills Homer

 

            
            
             In William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" he speaks of a lost woman searching for a forbidden love. His story takes place in the little gossip filled town of Jefferson where Emily's father raises her. Emily's live is sheltered because her father is overly protective; therefore, Emily only had her father. The relationship between Mr. Grierson and Emily caused the town to wonder and Emily to react strangely. In the end Emily loved, yet only knew the love of her father.
             This story begins with Faulkner describing the scene of Miss Emily's empty house on the day of her funeral. Her house, which was once full of life and beauty, now stands dark, full of odd smells, dust and torn furniture. The people in town came partially in respect for the older woman, and to see just what she had kept so secrete in her house. Faulkner also explains, that the towns people remembered seeing, "Miss Emily a slender figure in a white background, her father a straddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horse whip, the two of them framed by the back flung front door." (Faulkner, 57) There was something disturbing about the fact that Miss Emily did not date. She was still single at the age of thirty, yet the town accepted the oddness of the Grierson house. .
             When Emily's father died, this is when the town had hoped Miss Emily would get out and fina a man to marry, but the death of her father made Emily crazy. When people would come to visit Miss Emily and share her grief, "Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead." (Faulkner, 57) After three days of denial, Emily finally broke down. The doctors removed her father's body as soon as they could. She had gown very attached to her father because he made her depend on him. Mr. Grierson without knowledge, made his daughter crazy. The townspeople said, "We did not say she was crazy then.


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