A Rose For Emily

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After Miss. Emily lost her father and her love in her younger years, she regressed into a state of fantasy, longing for times gone by. This fantasy world allowed her to keep Homer for all times in a room of roses, where she preserved him, as one does a rose.

Emily was a very lonely woman and that was due to her father. He sheltered her and did not let her get close to other people. Her father made himself her world and he was all that she knew and when he died the world that she knew had been destroyed. Miss. Emily did not have anyone to fill the void that her father had left. Even when the ladies of the town came to visit and pay condolences she "met the women at the door and showed no signs of grief and she told them that

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All in all this story paints a very sad but realistic picture of how a person who has been cut off form others can escape into a fantasy world. I don't blame Miss. Emily, it was her father that introduced and circumstantially held her captive in his fantasy world. I blame her father for her ultimate downfall, which lead to Miss. Emily killing and preserving Homer, her rose.

Miss. Emily's father was portrayed as a man of prestige and power: "... her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip." This passage is a prime example of her father's aristocratic position and control over his own fantasy world. This fantasy world inevitably became t

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Approximate Word count = 518
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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