"A Rose for Emily"
William Faulkner
In this short story, there is a crazy old lady who likes to keep dead people in her house. Why would Emily, the old lady, keep Homer, the dead guy who she may or may not have killed, in a room for about forty years? Well the simply answer would be that the woman is crazy, and crazy people to absurd things. This may be true, but there is always more to the story. I think the reasoning the story gives to why Emily may have killed Homer also gives reason to why she kept the body. It says in the story that both her father died and a man believed to marry Emily left her (Faulkner, 283). Therefore, two men within a short period of time were out of her life. Now Homer liked men, so he was not likely to marry Emily, and if Emily believed she would be left again, she had a motive to kill Homer. She did not wish to be alone, and her way of coping with that was to be sure she would never be alone again by making it not possible for Homer to leave. People can do some really weird things when they are lonely.
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