What Is The Mood Of Faulkner's Short Story A Rose For Emily

In Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner was writes about two lovers, Emily Grierson and Homer Barron, with conflicting personalities that eventually leads up to Emily poisoning Homer in his sleep. In this story, Emily Grierson was the daughter of a wealthy man of high social class in a southern town called Jefferson, and he was a very overbearing man that didn’t allow her to see men for any reason at all. We also see Emily much like the rose, an object of beauty and desire that soon begins to wither and die.

Emily Grierson has never really have communicated with men before her father’s death, because Emily Grierson’s father was very overbearing man and he never allowed his daughter to see any men, he kept her locked away inside

the house and never let her leave his side. And because of this reason, the townspeople believed the Griersons thought of themselves too highly, that no man was good enough for Miss Emily. And soon after few years later Emily’s father died, she didn’t believe her father was dead, she didn’t wanted the townspeople remove her father’s body from the house, it was really tough situation for her not only for her but for anyone losing a father is a really tough situation. After three days of continuously convincing, Emily finally allowed the townspeople to remove her father from the house and they buried him, but she was still broken. All she had left was the house, and the townspeople didn’t think she was crazy for what she did. They said, “We believed she had to do that.
After the death of Emily’s father, the town signed a contract to have the sidewalks paved.

Along with the construction company came Homer Barron, a Yankee from the North that was a foreman on the job. Homer Barron was always the center of attention and whenever there was a large crowd of people laughing, he was in the middle of it. Soon Homer start to knew everybody in town and he was seen out driving with Emily, and when people had first start to see Homer and Emily together they said, “She will marry him” and, “she will persuade him yet.” (208). Some of the ladies were surprised to see Emily interested in Homer. But soon the in the town ladies began to say, “Poor Emily,” (208), because they all know that Homer was not a marrying man, he said so himself at the Elks’

Club.
Some few days later, Emily was buying arsenic from the drug store and the town was worried she was going to kill herself, some people they even thought that it would be the best thing for her to do for now since she could not accept the reality that her father’ death, others said it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example for the young people, so they asked the Baptist minister to talk to her and they had her two cousins come live with her. The town people were sure that Emily and homer going to be married, and they were glad. But soon the sidewalks were finished and Homer Barron left town, and a week later he returned as the town predicted but after that he was never seen again. Then for years and years, the front door of Emily’s house remained closed. Every now and then the townspeople would see her black servant coming and going from the market to the house.
At age seventy-four Emily died.

It had been ten years since anybody had been into the house. Now the house was old and decrepit and the house had a smell of disuse, so the town was curious to see inside. Then the townspeople broke through the doorway, and inside the room on the bed they saw Homer. Emily she feared he was going to leave her and she couldn’t accept it, didn’t want to accept it because she really felt lonely after her father died, that’s the reason why she poisoned him so he would never leave her and would always be there laying in the bed for her.

Faulkner’s opposite symbolization of Emily and Homer show incompatibilities between the two lovers. It was Emily that who killed Homer, but was it really her fault? In my opinion Maybe if her father wasn’t so overbearing or maybe if Homer settled down a little bit Emily wouldn’t have gone insane and committed such a

crime.