Rose For Emily Isolation

The story “A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner is a short and intriguing one. This story is so intriguing to its readers because of the way the main character is portrayed, the mysterious way that Homer Barron had died, and the way that the author uses the narrator to tell the reader the story.
Our main character, Emily, is women that has kept to herself, who for the larger parts of her life was shielded and controlled by her dad as well as having to manage the mental abuse that was accompanied by his overbearing personality and presence in her life. It is clear in the story that she had grown up like this, that she had spent her who.e life in this kind of state, when she was younger “[h]er father always letting her down with disapproval

The outcome of her inexperience of life and her dads predominance is what results in Emily’s powerlessness to be able to adapt to society and to have a typical and stable life. Her isolation was especially evident when her father died. After this death Emily became emotionally unstable. Her instability becomes so bad that she refuses to give up his dead body. Soon after his death Emily meets a man named Homer Barron, who, like Emily, was considered to be an outsider and becomes the subject of gossip in their town, but unlike Emily, when Homer came to town he had a charm and quickly became the center of attention. Some of the people in the town distrust him however, because he's not only a Northerner, but also because of their outings on Sunday's, which we always seen as scandalous, because to the town Emily was in a higher social class. What causes the speculation and suspicion is the failure on Homers part to properly court and marry her and because of the time he spent at a local club with younger men. The narration doesn't depict Homer as either a homosexual or as

Depending on how you look at these events, there could be two different explanations. Either she did t want the body found, for fear that it would prove she killed him, or it could also mean that, in the same way Emily didn't want them taking her fathers body, remember “just as the were about to resort law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly” (Faulkner 32), she didn't want them to take Homer away either, wanting him to stay with her for as long as they