A_Rose_For_Emily

A Rose For Emily Critical Analysis This essay is the critical analysis of “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner. The work was first published on April 30, 1930. It discusses the story of a woman whose father kept her from love and after his death her struggle for love and control. Emily Grierson did not change with the times as a normal person would, the town around her changed and as time went on she became more and more out of sync with the town. After meeting a Yankee by the name of Homer Barron, she began to take long rides with him and be seen with him in public. Despite rumors that he liked men, she later killed him with poison in hopes that the man she loved would stay with her forever. And that not even death could part them. Emily felt her best weapon was her snobby attitude and a lot of control. Control of her love life, control in not having to pay taxes, and control of the people she surrounded herself with. The narrator of this work appears to be the town itself, or an isolated person from the community. He or she appears to be speaking to the emily, control, love, life, father, death, town, refused, man, work, person, even, around, woman, time, though, story, pay, over, out, narrator, lived, keep, house, change, believe, appears, after, world, thought, taxes, take, seen, rose, really, power, poison, point, people, never, need, grierson, first, despite, dead, community, colonel, changed, began