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A Rose For Emily And Andre Dubus's Killings

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The murderers in William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and Andre Dubus's KIllings are both motivated by love. Emily is terrified of losing the man she loves, and Matt kills Strout because of his love for his son. Emily murders Homer, the man she is about to marry, because he wants to leave her; however, Matt kills in retaliation to his own son's murder. However, the crimes are different in that Emily's is preventative and Matt's is reactive. Because Emily kills Homer due to a choice that he has every right to make, her crime is less justified than Matt's. Homer only wanted to leave Emily; although this would certainly hurt Emily emotionally, she had a chance of recovery and could return to a normal life. Strout killed Matt's son, Frank, out of
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Homer’s body was kept in that upstairs room for over fifty years. After losing her father, Emily did not want to lose the only other male figured she had in her life. Emily thought the only way of keeping him with her for the rest of her life was by death and keeping his

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Situational irony was revealed both stories because a situation occurred in which actions had an effect that was the complete opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. In A Rose For Emily many reader including myself expected Emily to kill herself because of the hardships and losses of love ones but at the end of the story she actually poisoned Homer to kill him. No person in the town knew she killed until she was dead herself, 40 years later. Despite Homer not having the desire to married Emily to take it upon her to make sure marriage will be created by death. Therefore, she murders Homer in order to form a everlasting bond.

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Miss Emily has had problems keeping a lover.  Once she falls in love with Homer Barron, she finds out he does not marry anyone.   The big revealing secret after Miss Emily passes is that she murdered Homer to keep control over him.  

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Connor Coupanger English 102 Prof L.H. Roberts February 15, 2018 The Act of Two Murders In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, and the drama “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the authors created two female protagonists “Miss Emily Grierson” and “Mrs. Minnie Wright” their stories are both about woman and murder. In Trifles, Mrs. Wright has been arrested and investigated for suspected murder of her husband. Miss Emily in Faulkner 's story, kills a man who she was dating.

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That's just how much she loves her grandson. However, in " A Rose for Emily '', because she was isolated, she was driven to murder because of love. " A Rose for Emily" is told in the third person about Emily. The theme of the short story is isolation. When she was growing up, her father kept her shelter from any love interest; as her father grew old, she started caring for him, and when he died, she met Homer Barron.

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Emily knows how the people in the town stare and talk about her dating Homer and she does not care. Emily likes to hold on to the past and considering how she was brought up she cannot let Homer go when he states that their relationship is coming to an end. She decides she will hold on to him anyway she can. She inds up killing Homer and keeps him in the house with her. People complain of the smell but the townspeople will not confront her.

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The two works take a similar approach to the idea of death preserving a moment. In both works the murderers are motivated by their love for their victim and their wish to stay with them forever. In “A Rose for Emily” the murderer, Miss Emily, kills Homer Barron so he would never be able to leave her. She was driven to murder because Homer was not

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Although the film version of “A Rose for Emily” accurately portrays the basic storyline, there is a substantial amount of added information that affects my understanding of the story. The film, directed by Lyndon Chubbuck, contains a great deal of the same information as the story but abandoned some critical pieces and added some unnecessary parts. There was more contrasting information between the film and the short story. I believe the film could have been more faithful to the original layout of Faulkner’s work. Emily was in great denial about her father’s unforeseen demise.

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Emily’s father was very overprotective of Emily; even to the extent that he would stare down those walking on the street as he sat on the porch, a whip in his hand, with his daughter sitting in a chair behind the door. Some critics are of the belief that the way that he treats her is akin to how a man would his lover; thus, one may also believe that they might of have had an incestuous relationship. One piece of evidence that supports this idea can be seen when Emily hides the fact of his death; unwilling to let him go, Emily seemed to have lost her mind. Emily would later go on to fall in love with Homer Barron. After Homer had somewhat of a promiscuous relationship with Emily (a sin in itself), Emily conspired to murder him, and to stop him from ever being able to leave her.

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“A Rose for Emily” is a dark, suspenseful Gothic tale in which a young girl is put on a pedestal by a town who sees her as haughty and scornful. Miss Emily Grierson’s father controls her and her love life, pushing away all people until he dies and Emily is left alone. As her life goes on the townspeople watch her and judge Emily, almost turning her life into a spectacle to be talked about. At her death, a gruesome sight is unfolded when her lover of over forty years ago is found decomposed in her upstairs room. William Faulkner effectively builds epic suspense in “A Rose for Emily” by the unchronological order of the story, the treatment of Emily’s father towards her, and her family’s history of mental illness.

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In Love and In Death William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily”, centers around a reclusive woman named Emily Grierson who is the protagonist of this story. Emily lives in Jefferson, Mississippi with her strict and over protective father who turns away any male suitor who shows any interest in her as he believes them to be unfit for his daughter. Emily and her father are regarded as upper-class southerners who live in a very nice home. The townspeople see Emily as a mysterious individual, often pitting her.

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In each story I read, I found one very interesting thing that I touched on in the forums. In A Rose for Emily, I noticed that the townspeople’s pity towards Emily indirectly killed Homer. Emily was a bit crazy, but the townspeople thought nothing of it, for example, when Emily wanted to keep her father’s corpse for a few days the townspeople thought it made sense since her father denied her a suitor. The townspeople knew Emily was not completely sane, yet Emily represented the confederacy and that was something the townspeople wanted to preserve, “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation up the town…”. The townspeople’s negligence towards the care of Emily was shown when Homer disappeared.

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In “A Rose For Emily”, Emily is often bigoted for having a black servant, and is not shocked when “[the] negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn’t come back” (Faulkner). The man at the drugstore tricks the negro into selling Emily a lethal dose of poison, so that he himself will not be to blame for the murder that is to take place. This shows how many people at the time view darker skin color as an opportunity to avoid any blame for a crime because most people’s view of race is distorted anyway and often associated with crime. Faulkner condemns Emily for

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A Rose for Emily has two types of conflict. Person Vs. Self, Emily tends deal with a lot of problems by herself. Her father never let her date or marry anyone because he thought they weren’t good enough for her. After her father died she tried to keep the body, she didn’t really have anyone in her life except her father.

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