He Liked Men: Homer, Homosexuality, And The Culture Of Manhood

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In the short story “A Rose for Emily,” the main character Emily stays stowed away in her home while the community watches her every move. Throughout the story Emily has multiple events that raise questioning in the community, but are never truly brought to her attention. Emily ends up murdering her assumed fiancé, Homer, and keeps his body hidden in her house until his remains are discovered. In this essay, “He liked Men: Homer, Homosexuality, and the Culture of Manhood,” Thomas Fick and Eva Gold argue that reading gendered behavior is difficult in stories written before a time where a dominant female and queerness was accepted. Fick and Gold believe that Homer shows sign of being homosexual. Fick and Gold also consider truthful that the community

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