“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner gives the impression of a story written in the eighteenth century. The traditional symbolism of Faulkner creates a cozy atmosphere in which the reader is wrapped up in a story that can be interpreted from different perspectives. One can view it as a love story, or a tragic story. Miss Emily Grierson has a boastful father. Every man that asks for the hand of her daughter would be rejected by her father because of the thought that no one in the town deserves his daughter. The father thought that the men in the town are poor, so they don’t deserve his daughter to marry. This represents the culture from the West of the royal families that a royal blood should not be married to an ordinary person. That’s …show more content…
Homer Barron is a Yankee-a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. Miss Emily would take a date with Homer Barron every Sunday afternoon driving a yellow-wheeled buggy. This scene every Sunday afternoon stirred jealousy among the ladies from town and spread a gossip that “…of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day labourer.” The ladies from the town symbolize the perspective of the average person when they see a royal blood taking a date with an ordinary person. Their date continues until the feelings of Miss Emily to Homer Barron have developed so much. When they were having a date, Homer Barron himself remarked-he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks’ Club – that he was not a marrying man. This action affects the feeling of Miss Emily that she will be alone again. In the story it states that when they all thought that Miss Emily will marry Homer Barron and persuade him to, but the shocking part is Homer Barron confess that he is a homosexual, not a marrying man, and even slept with younger man. This statement from Homer shocked Emily. In fear that Miss Emily would lose the man that she loved so deep, she went to the druggist and bought a poison – arsenic. She used that poison to kill Homer Barron because she wants to be with him forever and was afraid that she will be left