es no friends except Hightower, and works almost all the time because he is so afraid of falling into mischief otherwise. Hightower himself is isolated as an outcast, someone rejected by society--in his case because he failed in his appointed task as guardian of public standards, by delivering incoherent sermons while his wife carried on obvious sexual affairs.In comparison A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily shares similar references towards Lena. Like Lena she is also morally isolated from her town by choice. She chooses her way life because she dislikes it so much. Her story is simply a story about a woman who fell in love with someone of a different background, someone she was not supposed to love. All her life all she wanted to do was to love someone and start a family. This story is also told in flashback and we go through Emilys life staring with her funeral then telling us about her life. She was troubled with how her father never gave her freedom and also the love she had for Homer brown, but never got to have. Possibly this was because of their difference in color, and how in that time the North and the South were two complete opposites and people did not mix. We find out that because of these differences and pressure on societys ways Emily killed Homer, in order for her to keep him close to her and not to loose him. Basically she went mad and she felt society would if they were seen together. The story implies that it is hopeless even for Emily who was subject to death, Emily just didnt want to loose things in her life, and in turn she did. The basic themes of thisstory are bitterness, towards her father, resentment, generation gap, disolusionment and suppressed forbidden love, all tying together this tragic story. Whether or not these two stories have the same plot line they have the same basic theme, hatred between people of the North and the South and the end results. Faulkner gives us two stories...
