st because the ladies all said. This shows the prejudice of the townspeople, who sympathized with the girl with the domineering father, but yet when she is older and is attempting to form a normal healthy relationship, they deny her that intrinsic right. Homer Barron is not mentioned often in the story, but the reader gets the gist of the hint that Miss Emily has falling in love for the first time, and then Homer leaves the scene, apparently because the work in Jeffersen is done. The climactic purchase of arsenic foreshadows Faulkners eerie direction. Miss Emily has found herself a rose. Not in the traditional sense of a red flower that one would place between the pages of a bible, but a symbolic one that she would treasure and care for even more. She would not or could not let him leave her. Everyone that she had ever cared for had left her, and she would be damned if it would happen again. Miss Emily got her rose, from herself. She allowed herself to love but would not allow herself to lose. She had lost everything that had ever come to her, including her self-esteem, and the ability to conform to her fathers and societys wishes. She isolated herself so that she could be who she was.Miss Emily Grierson isolated herself from a society that would not accept her for who she was. She was viewed as someone to be pitied and scorned. Everyone deserves a rose in life, and yet Miss Emily was denied her rose from everyone that ever came into contact with her. Her father, the townspeople, and even Homer Barron denied her love. Miss Emily found her rose and she would not accept the loss of love. She gave up her freedom, and isolated herself so that she could be with the one that she loved, and remember the embrace that they once may have shared. Like a flower between the pages of a bible Miss Emily found that living with memories was better than living in a society that scorned her....
