The Characters in "A Rose for Emily"
In the story "A Rose for Emily", we can find out that most of the people surrounded Emily have effect on Emily's behavior and the complexity of her mind. Those characters not only affect the inner self but the outer self of Emily. First of all, Emily's father is the main person who has great influence on Emily. Then, Homer Barron, the only lover in Emily's whole life and the contrast of Emily, also has influence on Emily. Finally, town's people also have effect on Emil's behavior, for some of Emily's behavior would be influence by their gossip. In the story, Emily's strange and weird behavior is not because of her nature but is because of the influence from other people. In the story, Emily's father is the most important person who led Emily's behavior and even when he was dead, Emily was still under his control. Due to the pressure that Emily's father put on her, Emily's mind and actions became weird, distorted and even somehow self-enclosed. In this way, her life was also being closed from the outside world. For example, in the story, "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such." (364), we can know her father controlled that even Emily's love affaire and didn't allow her to make her own
Homer Barron, the only man be loved in Emily's life, is an absolutely different person from Emily. For instance, from " Pretty soon he knew everybody in town.", and " Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group."(365), we can know that Homer Barron was a person who is active and welcomed by almost everyone. He is completely a contrast of Emily. Maybe it is the outdoor personality of Homer Barron that appealed Emily, for that it might be the one part of Emily's mind that has always been suppressed by Emily's father. Or we can say that maybe it is Homer Barron's lively personality that evoked the love of Emily and because this affection has been pressed for a so long time that the affection became somewhat intense. In this way, when Emily knew that she couldn't own Homer Barron forever, her love became crazy and she wanted to kill him so as to keep him with her forever. decisions when she is almost 30 years old. The reason why Emily's father wanted to be strict to her and put pressure on her might be traced back to her family. Because a noble family was they, his father thought that they were the most distinguished in the town and thus there's no one who is suitable for Emily. I think that this kind of thoughts of Emily's father was because of the fame of their family and this kind of thoughts might be passed by from generation to generation. I think that if Emily had had child
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Approximate Word count = 991
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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