A Rose For Emily

I actually liked this story i liked how the story created so much imagery it was easy to not get lost in thought and to focus on the importance of the story. I think that Emily is woman who is just not accepting on any change; in the story the author mentions how her house has stayed the same for so long the only difference is it used to be white. She keeps to herself and i think the reason why she does so is because i think her father kept her inside and away from the outside world and after his death she didn't know any different and continued to live her life the way she knew it. After meeting Homer i think that she fell in love with him and actually did want to begin a relationship with him but i think for Homer it was simply just a friendship. On page 210 It says "She will persuade him yet, because Homer himself has remarked-he liked men, and it was known that he dreank with the younger men in the Elks' club-that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner 210). I think that Emily clinged onto him becuase it was a man figure that she had longed for since her father past. She couldn't handle that he didn't feel the same and ended him. We as readers find out that Homer is dead at the end when the townspeople come to Emily's home after her death and find him in a room, we can also persume that she killed him with arsenic from when she went to the store to purchase some. After Homer the townspeople say that Emily no longer comes out at all where she used to come out every so often the only link she has to the outside world is her negro servant. I think Emily chooses not to go out because she feels she can not trust anyone and thinks that's probably why her father kept her inside thoughout his lifetime. I think this story is interesting and it allows you to think and be imaginative that's what i liked best about it.