A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner wrote “A Rose for Emily”. I think it was very sad and inconsiderate how the people in the town only went to Emily’s funeral to see the inside of her house. Emily was old and the people around her weren’t therefore they did treat her the way the generation before them had treated her. This story was kind of hard to get into. Maybe it’s just that I have senioritis and I’m ready for June 10th to get here.

Emily was a very strange character. She killed Homer because she was afraid he was going to leave her and because he didn’t love her like she loved him. I think Emily is crazy and should have been taken away by some mental institute; I mean she sleeps with Homers’ corpse for God’s sake. Her father kind of ruined her for life. Him running men out of her life didn’t do anything positive, it was probably the reasoning for the crazy/negative things she did. And like Homer, Emily kept her fathers’ body in the house also. I don’t think her personal condition can be described, but her father had such a strong impact on her that she thought he was the superior to anything or anybody.