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A Wilted Rose

A Wilted Rose

"We did not say she was crazy then" (Faulkner 4). Emily Grierson lives most of her life alone because her father, Mr. Grierson, believes that no man is good enough for his daughter, therefore rejecting each who asks for her hand in marriage. After his , Emily is lonely for many years until she meets Homer Barron. He wants to leave her, but disappears before the opportunity arises. After Emily's , the townspeople discover Homer lying on her bed, decaying with her hair beside him contrary to their beliefs of him leaving to the north. William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" conveys the universal concept through characterization and symbolism that people will do anything for love.
Through flashbacks, the reader learns that Emily's father's obsession with the quest to find his daughter the perfect man causes Emily to love only one person, her father. "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have......


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