"A Rose for Emily " By: WIlliam Faulkner (Summary)
A Rose for Emily is a short fiction story made by William Faulkner. The main character in the story is a young woman called Emily; she is a lonely woman ever since her father had died, and she has no friends because people are scared of her, she once found love in like her thirties to a man named homer baron people in the town thought she was in love and people was happy because they thought maybe if she found love she would be a nice person. One day one of her servants was going to the store and asked Ms. Emily what did she wanted from the store and Ms.Emily replied and said arsenic which was a strong poison for rats, the servant looked confused because he was wondering why would she want this strong poison, people in the town thought she was going to kill herself because many people thought she was depressed and sad and lonely. Emily never killed herself with the arsenic. Another time Homer Barron came to Emily house and the town people was so happy because Emily had found a man and people in the town can’t feel sorry for her, the towns people knew that homer baron and Emily had a relationship and they also knew that Emily and homer where getting married, everybody in the town was so happy because they thought maybe if Emily was married and happy with homer they wouldn't have to feel sorry for her anymore. One night everybody seen homer go inside Emily’s house and after that night nobody seen homer nor Emily ever again. People was shocked because they didn't know what happen to homer or they didn't know what to believe, one time they was going to kick Ms. Poor Emily out of her house because everybody was complaining that a terrible smell was coming from her house little did they know that was Homer’s body rotting in her bedroom. Emily had killed him. That’s why nobody had ever seen him again she poison him with the arsenic that she had recently brought from the store; she killed him because the night they was supposed to get married he was going to leave her because he didn't want to be with her no more so she killed him with the arsenic she felt betrayed because she love homer so much and he didn't feel the same way. So she killed him, and when everybody came to Emily’s funeral the towns people was snooping through her house and they found a room that hasn't been open in years, once they open the door they found a wedding dress and a suit and a body of homer baron, and right next to homer there was a piece of hair and the hair belonged to Emily’s.
A Rose For EMily ( THeme )
In the short story “A rose for Emily”; Emily is an old woman who men in her life that she really cared about died, and this made her feel very depress. Emily was a character that changed throughout the story, like in the beginning of the story she was a young and happy girl then as the story kept going she turned into a secretive woman, she always stayed in her house, she never even left the front porch, if she needed groceries she will send somebody to go and get them. The theme of this story is betrayal. Throughout the story Emily grew old and dusty and she started growing grey hair maybe because of all the stress she was feeling; “Poor Emily” everybody in town kept feeling sorry for Emily because they knew that she was alone and she wasn’t happy, and they just felt sorry for her. “I want some poison, arsenic, Ms.Emily said”. At this time Emily was in her late 30s, she wanted her servant to go buy her some poison people in the town and even her servant thought she was going to kill herself people was so shock, everybody in the town just knew that she was going to kill herself. “When she was had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, “she will marry him.” Emily was seeing this man Homer Barron for a while people thought they was in love, the towns people thought they was going to get married. Homer Barron and Emily Grierson was going to get married, one night Homer Barron went inside of Ms. Emily’s home and that was the last night anybody saw him. Emily had killed the person she was madly in love with, the person she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Why? You all ask, because he was going to leave her ; on their wedding night they was talking and having a good time until Homer Barron told Emily that he was going to leave her, maybe he didn’t love her as much as she loved him, she didn’t want to be alone like she was when her father died. She felt BETRAYED because she love this man and he was just going to leave her like she was nothing (this is sort of a comparison to the poem Betrayal by William Hathaway). So the arsenic she brought a long time ago, the poison that the towns people thought she was going to kill herself with she used it on Homer Barron and while he layed on the bed dead she was sleeping right next to his dead body and when people had looked through the house they found Homer Barron’s body and right next to it was a piece of grey hair, Emily’s grey hair.