A Rose for family

Introduction

Faulkner is now considered by many critics as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. But 'A Rose for Emily,' written in 1929, was rejected by Scribner's done and other magazines before publication in the Forum 1930. Although one of his greatest novels, The Sound and the Fury, was published just before pink Emily in 1929, many American critics are not immediately recognized as a revolutionary writer Faulkner (Sensibar, 66).

Reasons and motives behind Miss Emily's murder of Homer Barron

The narrator leads us to believe that Homer was "the marrying kind", so it did not propose to Miss Emily. However, when one reads between the lines, it seems that the opposite was true. In fact, it seems that Miss Emily refused to marry him. Miss Emily's father had historically its forbidden to marry anyone and was scared off all suitors. With his late father, Miss Emily was finally free to marry (Fowler, 35). But she knew in her heart that her father would never approve a northerner who worked as a laborer. So she could not marry him. It would have been upset his father. She was simply to be with Homer, but that action raised the ire of the minister, the wife of the prime minister and Grierson of Alabama. Would not tolerate Miss Emily just live with a man, was a bad example to young people. So with the marriage out of the question and cohabitation is not an option, Miss Emily took the next logical step - that "preserves" of Homer in a state of affairs at home, a situation she thought it would be nice to Grierson dad and cousins. This is how Homer could have provided, while avoiding the "shame" of a journeyman Grierson marries a Yankee.

Emily lives completely in the past. She told the new Board of Alderman that Colonel Sartoris had explained that she had no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris, however, had been dead for at least ten years. When Homer Barron tried to escape from his world in the new world, Emily was murdered to keep her in the past (Margaret, 121).

Cleanth Brooks believes that Miss Emily's actions are the result of strong independence. She refuses to be criticized by the city when gallivants around with Homer Barron. She refuses to stop Barron, so he is murdered. She refuses to pay taxes because the dead time Colonel Sartoris said she was not required to.

Brook admires Emily because she refused to comply with the public at a time when women were needed to. Explains that the moral of the story is a warning against pride: "Heroic isolation pushed too far ends in homicidal madness".

Hal Blythe provides a surprising reason why Miss Emily Grierson killed Homer Barron. He believes that Emily discovered that Barron was a homosexual. There are several clues within the story that might lead the reader to this conclusion. The narrator tells us that Barron "liked men, and knew that he drank with the younger men ...