Why Murder
In the short story "A Rose For Emily" and the short story "Killings" people have been murdered and the motivations for the killings are understandable but never the less still murders. The reason for murder in "A Rose For Emily" is not as clearly shown as with "Killings", that story is a classic "eye for an eye" type story. The main character in "A Rose for Emily" (Emily) and the main character in "Killings" (Matt) both kill out of love, but the types of love seem to be different. Emily was not what you would call the average murderer. She was strange however, after her own death (which is known to reader in the very first line of the story) the townspeople described her as "...a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town"(73). When her father died she would not let them take the body for three days, now that's pretty strange. The people in town at the time didn't think she was crazy, they explained her actions like this, "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will." (75) Here is the first indicator that her motives for killing her only love Homer Baron
In the other story, Matt is the father of Tony, a young man in love with a woman stuck in the middle of an ugly breakup with her husband. The ex-husband (Strout) is not very happy with young Tony. So in the classic jealous style, Strout kills Tony because he thinks Tony is the reason that he and his wife are not getting back together. Well Matt being the good father that he is not going to let this go. He feels a great injustice has occurred, the courts have let his son's killer out on bail meanwhile his son is dead and buried. Matt is extremely angry, he says, "He walks the Goddamn streets," he being Strout (82). His wife can not even go out shopping without seeing her son's killer walking about. The amount of anger and pain must have been crippling for Matt and his wife Ruth. While taking the law into his own hands, Matt is trying to avenge his son's death the best way he knows how. The planning and premeditation of Strout's murder would consume Matt until it was complete. Once it was finished Matt appears to be feeling bad; he can't even tell the story to Ruth without stumbling in his words. He felt remorse; "...he shuddered with a sob that he kept silent in his heart."(93). Matt was only human, no matter how much he hated Strout, he still had to deal
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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