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A Rose For Emily Love Analysis
Love seems to be in our lives as well as in stories in many different ways. In the story The Storm the father and son exhibit a type of love between the two family members. The Horse Dealer’s Daughter show’s us a type of irrational love that can happen between two people. Then there is an obsessive type of love which is shown in the story a Rose for Emily.
In The Storm the boy is anxious about getting to his mother’s house on time. The dad seeing this attempts to drive in the heavy snow. Showing an example to his uptight kid that it is okay to take chances in life. His Father tell’s the boy to not try this on his own but still continues to try to get to his mother’s house to attempt to save his marriage. The father loves the boy and his mother so much returning the boy on time in attempt to
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The doctor and Mabel had known each other being a family friend. The doctor saves Mabel from almost drowning in the pond. When Mabel wakes up they both exchange a type of feeling between the two without realizing it. The doctor confesses his love for mabel after realizing the love he had for her all along. This is the type of love shown between two people in relationships even if it was unnoticed in the beginning.
In A Rose for Emily, Emily is a woman who was restricted from love because of her father turning away any suitor that showed interest in Emily. Once Emily’s father had passed, She doesn’t really know what to do with herself. Then Emily meet’s Homer which the whole town disapproves of her even interacting with him. Emily realizes Homer might leave her, resulting in her killing him with poison. Once Emily passes away they find Homer’s body and Emily’s hair where she had been sleeping next to him. This Love is an obsessive kind of love. We would also see this kind of love as a crazy kind since Emily resulted to murder because she had no one else to love her besides

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