A Rose for Emily Unit 2

A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, is told through the eyes of one of Miss Emily Grierson's southern neighbors. Which gives the story an outside view of Miss Emily's actual life and an inside to the life the towns people painted of her. It also leaves some unanswered questions as to why certain events take place.
This is a story of a woman, with a recluse past after the death of her father and the disappearance of her lover. Miss Emily, it seems, had always been a woman with a strong head and heart. Even though the thought of the towns people was to pity her, which is repeated through out the story, "Poor Emily", Faulkner writes (209) "She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen" and shows her inner strength.
Her lover, Homer Barton disappeared some time after Miss Emily brought some arsenic from the local drug store, and after her death the authorities/neighbors found a room in which lay a body and dressings for a wedding. The body of Homer Barton, had lain on the bed for quite awhile, and next to his pillow was another with an indent of a head and a hair that matched Miss Emily's. I think this shows that Emily was not as strong as she would like to think herself. She poisoned her love to keep him with her so she would not be alone in this world, knowing that he could die and "be taken" from her as her father had, she killed him and kept him close.