A Rose for Emily

I really enjoyed reading this short story and even though I wasn't quite sure how to go about it when it started once I finished it I was intrigued. Although I would never be OK with killing someone for any reason I understand in a way why she did it. She was so afraid to be alone and unloved in a way this made her believe someone would always be there for her. Everyone was always interested in what Emily was doing and in a way they were jealous cause of her big house and how her father had given her everything. "Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows-she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house-like the carven torso of an idol in niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation-dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse." William Faulkner pg. 211. But growing up in a small town I know how neighbors are and they are always interested in someone elses business and whats going on in their lives such as in this line of the story clearly states the town was always watching her. Emily was lost in her own little world and she wanted to be loved in the end when they opened the room with the body of Homer in there you could finally realize that she would give anything to be loved by someone even kill them. With the way the body was laid out she must have laid by him many many nights just to get the feel that someone would love her and hold her in that way.