Emily never experiences a normal social life. The townspeople tell us, "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away" (669). Her father's obsessive possession is the only love Emily has ever known. So perverse is this attachment that she keeps his corpse and denies his death for days. Only under threat of forcible entry does she allow his body to be removed; "She told them that her father was not d

Emily continues to reject her father when she murders Homer Barron. Emily murders Homer not out of love or loneliness. She murders Homer to regain power and control. She is determined to have what she wants, dead or alive. Emily is comforted by Homer's rotting corpse and even lies next to the body in bed. Had she been allowed, Emily would have kept her father's body as a demonstration of her final control over him. In Emily's mind, Homer's body is her father's body.

Psychologists today understand that a person's self-esteem and mental health are directly related to the parent-child connection. Emily's parental relationship was one of manipulation, power, control, and perhaps incest. Her environment was so extremely distorted; her descent into insanity is not surprising. Had Emily's father been a loving man with normal aspirations for his daughter, it is highly doubtful Emily's existence would have been so dreadful.<

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