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a rose for emily

tly without motion like someone famous who is posing in a scene or for a picture. Most of the time, The erection of a monument is an honor made to someone who did something special. A monument represents someone that has been popular during a certain period of time, like the Griersons were. Emily's isolation plays another major role in this story because it is the reason of her behavior. Emily's father did not like to be lonely, therefore he kept her beside him until his death. This fear of being alone was inherited to Emily, who first would try to keep her father's body in the house and later would do anything to maintain Homer by her side. Her father robbed her of a husband and a female's existence that can find fulfillment only through marriage. Her father did not want her to get engaged because he did not want to see his daughter leaving him, not being at his side. However, marriage-not virginity-was Emily's primary concern, and the murder of Homer Barron attempted to keep some form of marriage. It is interesting to note the importance of the last paragraph when they found Emily's gray hair beside Homer Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair. This situation makes believe that Emily slept besides him every night until she died. This can reflect how much she was obsessed by Homer and her father, consequently of being alone. In fact, she killed Homer for having his company the rest of her life, and this is probably why she stayed with him all the time before she died. Through the beginning of the short story A Rose for Emily, Emily has leaded her to her own failure. At the beginning, she was a person respected by the town, but after her father's death, she started acting with stupidity and then, she found herself being alone for the rest of her life. Some people might think that she was crazy, but others could say that she was helpless. I think that s...

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