A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is not your typical story to say the least. One of the things that make this story more of a mystery is the fact that it is told in an objective 3rd person point of view. This point of view gives the reader very little insight, in an effort to encourage more of self interpretation from the reader. Something that is certain is that Emily killed her beloved homer, the only man that had had the opportunity to love her. Emily never truly learned how to have a relationship with someone of the opposite sex because of “all the young men her father had driven away” (Faulkner 208). Instead of going through the biggest change in her life and trying to learn how to become a couple, Emily decide to make things easier and kill her husband. She no longer had to hold a conversation and withstand the awkwardness; however she was still able to sleep next to him every night, for the rest of her life. Amanda Klepperich