A Rose for Emily and Cask of Amontillado
The short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, can be compared and contrasted to the short story A Rose for Emily by Faulkner. In both of these stories the main characters get away with a planned murder. Emily, in A Rose for Emily, murders her companion, Homer Barron. She believes that as long as he is dead he can be forever hers. She keeps him in her bed along side of her, despite the rotting body she still keeps his death to herself. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor feels that his friend Fortunado, has insulted him, and so he seeks revenge against him. He leads Fortunado into the catacombs and leaves him there in chains behind a wall to die. The difference in these two murderers is that Emily killed to keep someone whom she loved with her forever, Montressor killed for revenge and to get rid of Fortunado. Emily was a woman who in her earlier years was under severe control of her father. She was forbidden to go out with boys and had very strict rules. Emily had always wanted to be free, and to have a husband, and then when s
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Approximate Word count = 747
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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