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Critical Essay (A Rose for Emily)

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A Love for Emily

A Critical Essay about A Rose For Emily ' by William Faulkner

There are popular sayings that goes love moves in mysterious ways and love makes people crazy ' The amalgam of those sayings would somehow serve as a rough of William Faulkner 's story A Rose for Emily ' Since its publication , the story still captures the imagination of many present-day readers - although , in a disturbing way The title is deceptively , and ingeniously for that matter , designed to make the

story seem as a love story . It is important to note that a rose is a generally accepted symbolism for love . However , the story begins with the death of the protagonist . Actually , there are many points in the story that would lead the readers to the conclusion that Faulkner 's story is far from a love story . This reading will be standing beside the argument that A Rose for Emily ' is a love story that presents to the readers love in an unfamiliar form

Faulkner exquisitely described how Emily is madly in love with Homer She even dreams of being married to him someday . Faulkner 's details resemble a layout of a typical love story . However , all of those beautiful renditions of Emily 's love are just diversions to the author 's twists . When Emily mentioned that she wants to be married to Homer , he replied that he was not a marrying man (366 . The reader could almost picture Emily as a rose whose petals are torn by the sharp gust of wind of Homer 's subtle rejection . This particular event of her life had significantly contributed to her impending insanity . And because Emily loves Homer so much , Emily had devised a plan to keep him beside her . She had poisoned Homer , paralyzing him for a moment , and then for eternity . She then set Homer 's lifeless body in her bed , then slept with him - in every context of the word slept

Emily 's version of love could be described as unconventional . The story begins describing how the townspeople of Jefferson (Faulkner 's fictional city ) treated her .a sort of fallen monument (Faulkner 5 . Even though the townspeople treat Emily in a revered manner , it would be arguable that they have love for her . In the first part , Emily is already dead and her pitiful yet gruesome background would be unfolded as the plot progresses . A safer claim to make about the townspeople treatment to Emily is that they pity her at the same time disgusted by her life , or more particularly , her love life . The shocking ending considered a classic , reveals to the readers that Emily had murdered the one she truly loves , Homer Barron . It is just understandable that the townspeople of Jefferson and the readers (of the real world ) would raise the question : could this be considered love ? If we would set aside the conventional notions of love (like couples promising to each other eternity , sincerely caring...

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