How Did Emily Kill Homer

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“A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner was written in 1930. It’s the story of a strange, high society woman with a dead body in her house. Only when she dies and you enter the house is this secret revealed. It’s not very easy keeping something like that. Especially when you live in a town full of nosy people. Why did she kill her lover? How did she get away with it? With the help of her servant, her status in society, and how conservative people were, I believe it was fairly easy to keep her secret for so long.
Behind every killer there is a purpose for the killing. So why did Emily kill Homer? Some could say it was by cause of her going crazy with the death of her father. Others could predict it was that he wouldn’t marry her by reason of he “isn’t the marrying type” (page 724). I believe it was by reason of she wanted to keep Homer with her forever. She wanted to make absolutely sure that …show more content…

I believe it was with the help of her butler and how conservative society was at this time. People were nosy, but never pester the person about the subject. People just came up with their own conclusions when it came to rumors with not all the facts shown to them. When Emily bought the arsenic they all just believed she was going to kill herself. They never thought for a second she would kill someone else (725). People are funny that way. They will just think up something when they don’t know the real reason. The negro man helped a lot in her not getting caught. After the death of Homer he stopped speaking to everyone who even tried to get information on Miss Emily. He only went to grab her groceries and came back to the house until the day she got sick and died. The townsfolk didn’t even know she was sick (727). She was a very fortunate women to not have been caught in the murder. If it wasn’t for the Negro man keeping quiet or how society acted she would've been tried for murder no matter the

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