Comparing the Horse Dealers' Daughter and a Rose for Emily

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How death affects everyone differently, as seen through D.H. Lawrence's The Horse Dealer's Daughter and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily.

Death is the end of life. Every living thing dies, but human beings are probably the only creatures that can imagine their own deaths. When someone dies the people closet to them are over come with sadness. Some people find comfort in death. They believe that when you die your suffering ends. People who go through the death of an important person in their life often feel like a part of them has also died. You can choose to let this experience alter and shape the rest of your life or you can overcome it and continue with your life. In A Rose for Emily and The Horse Dealer's Daughter , Mable and Emily experience the death of their father.

In A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily experiences a hard coming change. After being the only man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. It took three days for the doctors to be able to dispose of his body. She kept denying for three days that her father had died. The townspeople didn't think she was crazy for doing so. " They believed she had to do that. They remembered all the young men who her father had chased away,

EMily's father didn't let her date. He took away any chance she had to meet a man. He felt that " none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily." (Faulkner Pg. 75) She spent her life taking care of him in that old house. She wasn't allowed to experience and enjoy the pleasure of being in the company of men. Emily was thirty when her father passed and was still single. (Faulkner Pg. 75) In a way her father's death was liberation for her. She could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn't chase them off any more. After her father died she looked like a girl" with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows, sort of tragic and serene." ( Faulkner Pg. 76) She was all alone and couldn't accept this change. She did not have the individual confidence, or maybe self-esteem and self-worth, to believe that she could stand through this.

Emily retreated to her "rose tinted" world of death and the past. This was hopeless because even Emily, was finally subjected to death. Her father's death affected her in a way that no one else would be able to understand. His death was why Emily was so scared to be alone.

The only place she had always felt safe and secure was her mother's grave. Once she was under the " shadows of the great church and among the graves, she felt immune from the world." ( Lawrence Pg. 549) She felt that hear she didn't have to answer to anybody. She could block out all the hurtful words that her brothers would say to her. She cleaned and washed her mother's tombstone. This gave her a sense of gratification. She felt that her mother, being dead was now living a glorified life. It would have hurt her more to have had to have seen her mother go through what she was now going through. She loved her father but it was different than how she loved her mother. "For the life she followed here in the world was far less real than the world of death she inherited from her mother." (Lawrence Pg. 549) She began to walk through the unaware of anyone who might see her.

Her life was spent caring for her father and now he was gone. " Now he was dead and everything had gone to the dogs, and there was noth

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Approximate Word count = 1470
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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