Critical Analysis
A Rose for Emily
Throughout life people face many hardships, including life and death, letting go is such a hard thing for these people to do. In the story, A Rose for Emily, Faulkner writes about love and the effect it can have on a person . Faulkner writes about how Miss Emily loses her father and he is the only person she has in her life. Later in the story, Homer Barron came to their town to fix the streets. People begin seeing Miss Emily and Homer together and believe that they are going to get married. The time comes for Homer to leave and it was believed that Miss Emily will kill herself if she loses another person she loves. Homer disappears and Emily never exits the house, all everyone sees is the Negro entering and leaving the house. Throughout the years everyone wonders what happened to Miss Emily and Homer; in the end when Miss Emily dies they find Homers body in the upstairs room of her house. This story shows that when a person truly......
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