What Is The Mood Of Faulkner's Short Story A Rose For Emily

In Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner was writes about two lovers, Emily Grierson and Homer Barron, with conflicting personalities that eventually leads up to Emily poisoning Homer in his sleep. In this story, Emily Grierson was the daughter of a wealthy man of high social class in a southern town called Jefferson, and he was a very overbearing man that didn’t allow her to see men for any reason at all. We also see Emily much like the rose, an object of beauty and desire that soon begins to wither and die. Emily Grierson has never really have communicated with men before her father’s death, because Emily Grierson’s father was very overbearing man and he never allowed his daughter to see any men, he kept her locked away inside

Along with the construction company came Homer Barron, a Yankee from the North that was a foreman on the job. Homer Barron was always the center of attention and whenever there was a large crowd of people laughing, he was in the middle of it. Soon Homer start to knew everybody in town and he was seen out driving with Emily, and when people had first start to see Homer and Emily together they said, “She will marry him” and, “she will persuade him yet.” (208). Some of the ladies were surprised to see Emily interested in Homer. But soon the in the town ladies began to say, “Poor Emily,” (208), because they all know that Homer was not a marrying man, he said so himself at the Elks’

It had been ten years since anybody had been into the house. Now the house was old and decrepit and the house had a smell of disuse, so the town was curious to see inside. Then the townspeople broke through the doorway, and inside the room on the bed they saw Homer. Emily she feared he was going to leave her and she couldn’t accept it, didn’t want to accept it because she really felt lonely after her father died, that’s the reason why she poisoned him so he would never leave her and would always be there laying in the bed for her.

Faulkner’s opposite symbolization of Emily and Homer show incompatibilities between the two lovers. It was Emily that who killed Homer, but was it really her fault? In my opinion Maybe if her father wasn’t so overbearing or maybe if Homer settled down a little bit Emily wouldn’t have gone insane and committed such a