A Rose For Emily Essay

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A Rose for Emily William Faulkner writer of story discussed about the hollowness of the main character Emily in her life. He tried to convince his readers that just high status in society doesn’t warranty happiness in life. Sometimes class conflict can cause major problem in life. Main reason responsible for the end of most of relationships is different social class. In the story writer described about the loneliness of Emily and then how the circumstances make her crazy and mentally upset about her life and she does some unnatural things to get satisfaction in her life. The story was well organized by taking some illusions and mystical things, Emily’s house was one of them …show more content…

She was serious about her relationship with Homer but he was not ready for marriage. In the climax of the story, the narrator tells that one day Emily went to pharmacy and asked to druggist for “arsenic” (a kind of poison). It makes interesting move in story as readers are convinced to think if Emily wanted to kill herself. Her conversation with pharmacist makes us thinking of her problems in personal life like, she was feeling broken inside and she was not strong enough to bear the ignorance of Homer in her life. Her conversation with pharmacist makes it clear that she wanted to kill someone. Until this point, reader were expecting Emily’s suicide news but that could never …show more content…

She was living a miserable life there. She never had lived her life according to her wish. Her life was first controlled by her father. After, her father’s death she found a partner in Homer. She was in love with him and wanted to get married with him. Once again her luck was not her neither Homer was interested in getting married nor did town people let her do that. She bought poison from pharmacist and killed Homer. She didn’t buried homer’s dead body, perhaps she wanted to feel that she is living a normal married life with Homer. Although it was Emily’s mental condition that made think so. She was behaving normal with dead body. As mentioned above, she used to sleep with Homer’s corpse on same bed. As an evidence people found one grey here on the pillow besides homer. It made the readers think for poor Emily’s

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