Saturday, January 23, 2010

Option B "A Rose for Emily"

From the very first sentence I could tell it was a townsperson telling this story as they said “our whole town” (Faulkner, 1930). As the story goes on more words such as we and our are used. The townsperson is telling the story how they saw it and the reader has no other choice but to believe what is being told because that is the only point of view being told. If it was being told my someone who knew Miss Emily more then everything would be different.
When Miss Emily said she “wants some poison” (Faulkner, 1930) I knew that someone was going to die. The quote “and that was the last we saw of Homer Barron” (Faulkner,1930) confirms my assumption. She killed him because she was obsessed with him, because he was the first person to show interest in her after her father had died. Her father had her confined to the house and drove away anybody who may have had an interest in her, so when he died she was left with nothing. She did not want Homer to leave her so she did what was probably the only thing she could think of to keep him, she killed him. In the end we can see she was obsessed.

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