A Rose for Emily Summary

Faulkner beautifully illustrates the morbid symmetricalness between Emilys father and the house that impris iodind her. Both were learnled and manipulated by the very being that would eventually destroy them. Faulkner strategically places the home of the Griersons, on what was once consider a prestigious street in the crumbling, overcrowded t confesssfolkspeopleship of Jefferson. Here, both monuments of the prehistorical are hale to maintain a honor facade of sanity among an ever-changing ball club. There are two interpretations to be made in understanding the source and meaning behind Emily murdering home run Barron, in A Rose for Emily.The first motive deals with the personal penalize Emily disciplineks towards her father, the second being towards the town of Jefferson who scrutinized her and critically analyzed eitherthing she did. The remainder of Emilys father set in motion a diabolically annoyance scheme to seek the ultimate retaliate on the patriarchal party of Jefferson, which controlled and ultimately claimed her sanity. Her revenge began with her father whom she hated for denying her the privilege of having a prevalent and successful womans life.Emilys hatred began to fester deep down the depths of her soul as a young child, dominated by a father who concluded that no antheral figure was good abounding to inherit the status of courting or marrying a Grierson. Emily became emotionally torture by the very thought of being a spinster and having no other male figure to crawl in, besides her controlling father. The growing vexation continued as she became older and perspective suitors appeared at the front door, ultimately to be chased a modality with a horsewhip. Although the delirium is apparently outward-the upraised horsewhip against the would be suitor- the true(a) object of it is the woman-daughter, forced into the fannyground and dominated by the phallic figure of the spraddled father whose back is turned on her and who pre vents her from getting out at the same sentence that he prevents them, suitors, from getting in. (560). Emily was a caged animal, imprisoned by her controlling father, in a circus whose master manipulates all of the animals movements, emotions, and physical appearance by a carefully illustrated system of rewards and punishments.Emilys rewards, according to her father, was that she be portray to the towns quite a little as a slender figure in discolour too pure for the stains of any human being to corrupt what he, the father, masterfully created. Emilys punishment was that she would eventually be revered as an invulner able figure whos every action or movement would be analyzed by the town of Jefferson. It wasnt until that fateful day, the death of her father, when Emily was lastly able to outwardly express her revenge upon the very first male who suppressed her emotionally and physically, by not giving him the proper entombment a Grierson deserved.Instead, she was able to exp erience, first hand, the feeling of triumph over honoring her so-called beloved father rot before her very eyes, the dulcet revenge of a twisted character. Emily quick-wittedly denied to the towns people that her father died in order to secretly express her future intent of revenge towards the town of Jefferson by not letting them, the residents, immediately be given of his decrypted and decaying body. She told them that her father was not dead.She did that for three days, with the minister calling on her, and the doctors, stressful to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to apply to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly. (27). Because she is Miss Emily Grierson, the town invests her with that communal significance which makes her the object of their obsession and subject of their incessant scrutiny the town is able to impose a particular code of behavior and to see her in failure to live up to that code an excuse fo r meddlesome in her life. (560). The result of the towns interfering adds fuel to her fire to seek the revenge for interfering in her life and being so critical of every movement that she makes. The most significant diabolically evil plan Emily desire was the revenge on the patriarchy society of Jefferson, which no one would be able to comprehend the magnitude of the murder of homer Barron. After the death of her father, the townsmen felt pity for her and claimed that leaving her the decrypted decaying housing structure was a way of knocking her off the pedestal and becoming to a greater extent humanized.The patriarchal society outwardly expressed their need to watch over and care for the lonesome(a) spinster who they concluded incapable of providing for her financially. Colonel Satoris, the eldest patriarch of Jefferson, fabricated a story to justify why the town remitted her taxes, claiming that it was from a financial impart her father provided for the town many years ago. T he motive for the murder of Homer Barron was for Emily, on her deathbed, to gain the last laugh at a town that scrutinized and critiqued her yet never came to understand why she acted and lived as she did.Another motive for the murder of Homer Barron was to prove to the patriarchal society of Jefferson that even though she, Emily, could not persuade him to marry her (535). Due to his perversions, she may still win in controlling Homer if her were dead. No one would be able to take that secret love she had for Homer away even though he would never reciprocate it the same way because of his alternative lifestyle. gentleman Homer was an embarrassment to Emily, because for the first time ever she was free love someone, and he turned out to love young men more than women.This humanizes Emily even more and in turn it helps explode the decades of manipulation and control she receives at the hands of her father. She had a perfect plan no one in the town of Jefferson would ever call back that Emily, being a real lady to forget noblesse supportwithout calling it noblesse oblige (535). Emily is exempted from general indictment because she is a real lady-that is, eccentric, slightly crazy, obsolete, a unflinching and coquettish decay, absurd but indulged dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse indeed, anything and everything but human. (561). Who would believe she would have murdered someone in order to have their love. A Rose for Emily is taken from a morbidly crepitated point of view where an reference obviously is hiding many deep dark secrets within his past without bluntly coming out and exposing it to the rest of society. Faulkner disguises his own tragedies from his past with the story to give himself a sense of personal release from his own personal bondage. A Rose for Emily is utilized as a clever way for William Faulkner to disguise his own slide from sanity.