Why Emily Killed Homer Barron In William Faulkner’s short story entitled "A Rose For Emily"‚ Emily Grierson kills her lover Homer Barron after being in love with him for about a year. She then sleeps next to the body in the upstairs bedroom of her home‚ loving it as if Homer were still alive. She then closes up the upstairs‚ never seeing the body again. There are three different motives that can be looked at as to why Emily killed Homer. She wanted to exercise power‚ she couldn’t accept that Homer
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Emily Killed Homer Why Emily Grierson did kill Homer Barron? In a William Faulkner short story titled “A Rose for Emily” the main character Emily Grierson poisoned her male companion Homer‚ with a powerful poison called arsenic; which is venom for rats. A motive is not directly stated by the narrator‚ but as we read the story critically‚ some reasons can be found‚ for example: first‚ Homer was going to deceive Emily‚ although he was not the marrying type man. Second‚ her father’s interference‚ and
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A Rose for Emily: Why Ms. Emily did not kill Homer Barron Ms. Emily Grierson‚ a well know figure in her community has a lot of controversy surrounding her. Known for being reserved and quiet‚ Ms. Emily is considered to be the local crazy person. Her family is known for having members with mental illnesses‚ and she is quite bizarre also. After her love interest Homer is found dead in her house‚ everyone wonders if Ms. Emily killed him. Ms. Emily never really got the chance to have a male companion
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Rose for Emily” is an intriguing tale of the life and death of Emily Grierson‚ who ends up killing her male companion‚ Homer Barron. A motive is not stated by the narrator‚ but when read critically a motive can be found. Several Literary critics have proposed different motives of why Emily Grierson killed Homer Barron. Some say that Homer was going to jilt Emily. Although homer was the not the marrying type‚ there is no evidence that homer was going to leave her. Another motive was that homer was gay
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I was extremely intrigued about Homers death after reading the story A Rose for Emily. In reading the story the author leads you to believe that Homer died because Emily killed him but also leaves it open for other possibilities. But is it really possible that Homer died for other reasons? Throughout the story it is explained that Emily had a hard time moving forward and letting go of the past and that gives the idea that maybe Homer died and Emily just couldn’t let him go like she had trouble letting
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many of your colleagues. The most productive time of Hanson’s writing career followed his collaboration on Who Killed Homer‚ Hanson wrote that Classics professors needed to “teach more” yet he himself would end his tenure at CSU Fresno to focus on his book and speaking tours. Before fully leaving the daily rigors of professorship‚ Hanson had several more articles published‚ these post-Homer works focus more on military history
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Why Did Emily Do Such a Terrible Deed? When readers read A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner‚ they get to question ’Why did Emily do such a terrible deed in the end?’ Like a detective novel‚ by setting the narrator as ’we’‚ the town`s people detect the reasons of Emily`s eccentric behavior in a detailed perspective. They think the reason for Emily`s eccentric behavior is based on the death of Emily` father‚ the fear of losing someone she loves again and the absence of the town`s people who Emily
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McKenzie Blackwell Mrs. Shreve IB English III 4 September 2012 “A Rose for Emily” In William Faulkner’s well-known short story‚ “A Rose for Emily”‚ the townspeople of a rural Mississippi town share their thoughts and views of the late 19th century upper class through tales of the lonely Miss Emily Grierson. Miss Emily is a fallen symbol of wealth and prestige who has become a recluse within her own home after the death of her father. Due to her peculiar ways‚ the citizens living in her
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Emily is clearly a villain in the short story‚ “A Rose for Emily.” Although much of her character came from her father’s abuse‚ she remains responsible for her actions. In the story‚ Emily is obsessed with avoiding change. She is a symbol of the old South‚ and clearly represents the few traditionalists following the Civil War. The traditionalists are clearly the villains in the South‚ because they will not let go of the negative past of slavery‚ as Emily is in “A Rose for Emily”‚ because she will
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Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”‚ Homer Barron is a mixed race man who “passes” himself as white to succeed in society‚ which leads to his demise when his companion Emily Grierson kills him to avoid scandal. What is “passing”? To understand why Homer Barron would want to “pass” one must first understand what it means. Passing is: “an opportunity to gain
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