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"Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder." A Rose for Emily was a short story written by William Faulkner in 1929. In Faulkner's story, he depicts Emily Grierson as a southerner who poisoned and killed her lover, Homer Barron. Homer was a northerner whom Emily fell deeply in love with. As the story progresses, Faulkner goes into details about the occurrences, influences, and conditions which lead Miss Emily to kill Homer Barron.
Emily's decision to take the life of Homer Barron was probably caused by the events that happened in her life even before she met him. Back when Emily's father was still alive, the Griersons held themselves higher than what they really were (18). Her father isolated her from the others because he believed that the value of his daughter was greater than of the young men. Her father had driven away many of young men who approached her (18); therefore she remained single even when she reached the age of thirty. The effect of......

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