Rose For Emily Essay, Research Paper

"A Rose for Emily is a very popular short story because of its, style ,

climax, and plot. The author, William Faulkner, was a "Southern"

writer from Oxford, Mississippi. FAulkner bases this story on the tale of

Oxford’s aristrocratic " Miss Mary " Neilson. She married Captain jack

Hume, the charming yankee foreman of a street-paving crew, over her family’s

shocked protests. The style of this story is false romance. Miss Emily’s father,

before his death, would run off every man that tried to court her. Because of

this, she felt any man she loved would leave her. After falling in love with

Homer Baron, she feared he would run off like the others. To keep this from

happening, she poisoned him and kept his body upstairs in the bedroom. The

climax focuses on the room where the corpse was found. After Miss Emily’s death,

the town people were cleaning up the house and found a room that was locked.

They had to break down the door. To their surprise, they found Homer Baron’s

corpse lying in the bed dressed in a night shirt. As the story progresses there

is no indication that he had died. When they found the toilet things sitting on

the dresser with initials H.B., it was well known that the corpse was Homer

Baron. I first thought it was her father in the bed, then I realized that her

father was already buried. I then knew it had to be her lover. I cringed on the

thought of what she did while she was lying next to the corpse. Finally, the end

of this story surrounds a woman’s life from her mid twenties until her death at

the age of seventy-four. It describes a prominent lady of a town who led a

private life. I learned, while reading this story that this woman is crazy and

had the mind of a child. She seemed to lose everything she loved. Keeping the

body of the individual she loved was her eay of not feeling so alone.