A Rose For Emily Tradition Analysis

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Abdul Colen Eng 102 Prof. Formichella October 1, 2015 William Faulkners’ “A Rose for Emily” is a short story of a lady named Emily Grierson who had to face many strange difficulties in every steps of her life. She was an old lady who used to live in a small town named Jefferson. Emily is an outsider controlling and limiting the town access to her true identity by staying hidden. Emily is a very mysterious and muted character. Within the story, it’s stated that Emily was a very traditional person. From the introduction of the story it is said by the narrator “Miss Emily had been a tradition” (Faulkner 1), which proves that she herself is a traditional person. It has always been a mystery that how Emily led such an reclusive life because Emily did not …show more content…

Emily wanted to live happily ever after with Homor. “Homor himself had remarked—he liked men” (Falkner 4). She loved Homor so much that she would not accept the rejection and killed him with poison. The death of Homor is the result of her stubbornness. She did not want to let Homor to leave her because she never loved anyone before due to her overprotective father. Emily wanted to get close to Homor under any circumstance dead or alive. Attraction to a cadaver, is a prime symbol of Necrophilia. In all likelihood, her loneliness and stubbornness caused these actions. After the death of Emily the investigators went through the locked room, they found a “fleshless” body (Faulker 5) lying on the bed and also “saw a long strand of iron-gray hair” (Falkner 5) on the pillow which proves that Emily had continued to sleep in the bed after Homors death. Miss Emily was suffering from Necrophilia still loving and embracing him after his death. Emily had another occurrence of this in the story when her father died. She kept her father’s cadaver for three days and did not want to allow a proper burial. The same habits surfaced with Homor

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