Blog 8- A Rose For Emily- Sukhmeet Kaur

      The short story, A Rose For Emily, written by William Faulkner was merely based on the life story of Emily Grierson, a noble woman extremely respected and well known in the community she lived in. The story begins at Emily’s funeral ceremony. The entire community showed up. Emily was a woman who did not have any friends and did not want any either. As a young adult she lived with her father who she was immensely close to, but her father was very protective. He put many restrictions on her, one of which was to not date. She wasn't allowed to go out into the world and look for love. After her father passed away, Emily was devastated, she was alone and had no one by her side, to love her and protect her, the way her father would. Later, she started to date Homer Barron, but when their relationship did not work out to well (Homer was gay), he disappeared. After Emily’s death was the first time that the community had ever been into her house. It was a big house. Upon their arrival at her bedroom, the saw Homer’s body laying on the bed (Dead) and a long piece of gray hair on the pillow next to him. This symbolizes Emily’s hair, and that she had killed him and had been sleeping with him for so many years, due to her feeling the lack of love. After her fathers death and her break up with Homer, she had to do something to get the “love and protection” back into her life. When first reading this story, the reader is astonished and disgusted by the end of the story, as so was I. But I would definitely recommend this story to a friend because there are many details and parts that I left out in my summary but are great to read throughout the story.