Comparison Of Love In 'A Rose For Emily' By Zora Neale Hurston

“I says to myself, this is a girl that I’m letting him rob her of her money,” Huck knows that the Wilks girls are nice and will live an awful life without the money left to them (Twain 176). Huck struggles with this dilemma, because the girls, especially Mary Jane, are so sweet and unsuspecting, yet the con men are scary and Huck was going along with it. Huck eventually comes clean to Mary Jane which pits him against the con men, but helping these kind girls has become more important. Huck has become extremely fed up with the con men and their aliases, and finally takes a step against them. This is a case where Huck’s good nature really shines against

She could not handle her father’s death and tried very hard to isolate herself from the world changing. She took up a lover and then decided to murder him when she realizes she will not be able to marry him. Her entire way of life shows you a perfect example of the Old South’s inability to change.

The protagonist Emily, who is symbolic of the past, is in conflict with the present. Miss Emily was an only child to her father, who died and left her a house with no money. Before the death of her father, the Colonel Sartoris remitted her taxes. The “next generation,” (Faulkner 730), of mayors and aldermen made a decision that Miss Emily should also pay property taxes as everyone else. Miss Emily felt otherwise; they tried reaching out to Miss Emily but she was so stubborn that she did not reply.

Homer was never seen again until Ms. Emily dies. The day of her funeral the townspeople knew that only one room upstairs has remained unseen for forty years and would have to be forced open. Of course, they waited until Ms. Emily was buried before they opened the door. Once the door was opened and the dust was settled they discovered what had been locked in that room for so long. Poor Homer Barron never made it out of Ms. Emily’s house alive.

The story shows Emily's past and her family story. This information explains her behaviour towards time. Firstly, her father's lack of desire to move on into the future and his old-fashioned ways kept Emily away from the changing society and away from any kind of social relationship: "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such."(pp. 123). "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away."

The audience learns that Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, being a proud man, never believed any was good enough for his daughter and would chase them away. When he died, Emily would not allow the authorities to remove his dead body for three days, claiming that he is still alive . This section also mentions that two years after her father’s ... ... middle of paper ... ...evealed throughout the story. This writing style was not common during Faulkner's time. Southern Aristocracy Southern Aristocracy is a major theme in many of Faulkner's stories, including "A Rose for Emily."

The last responsible person for Lennie’s death was Curley. Curley was very mean to Lennie and was picking on him for only the reason that Lennie was bigger than Curley. Curley was also very possessive over his wife, which lead her to look for other men.

A rather dark and disturbing short story written in 1931 by William Falkner, “A Rose For Emily” tells the tale of Emily Grierson, a troubled, and mysterious woman who has always been an outsider in her town. The story begins with the funeral of Emily, who had died at 74. Nobody, except her servant Tobe, had been inside her house for ten years, and the story goes back to this last encounter. Emily had had a special relationship with the town which allowed her to opt out on taxpaying because she couldn’t pay, but the newer generation did not like the idea. This is when the authorities went to her house to ask for payment, and she refused straight out.

In the lyrics, “the bigger the bank, the bigger the Benz/ The better the chance to get close to his rich friends.” Trina suggests not only that females use men for everything they have, but to not have any loyalty toward anyone. Her sole purpose for associating with men is to get their money and she would even use his friends if she has to. Trina’s intent was to create a song that liberated women from the double standards and stereotypical views placed upon them. Her song however can cause harm to young women that listen to take this song to heart. Instead of liberation, we are moved further down into the hole of degrading and devaluing women.

Her father believed that no one would ever be good enough for his daughter, and thus he turned away all the men that asked for Emily's hand. So, Emily had only her father to protect and take care of her, and now that he is dead, she found herself all alone. She doesn't have anyone to protect her, and furthermore, she's left with no money, but for the house that she lived in. At this turning point in Emily's life, the townspeople turn their back on her, for her suffering seems to give them pleasure, since now "she had become humanized" (31). The difficult t... ... middle of paper ... ...rom the Negro" (34), and so they had no idea about what was going on in Emily's life.