A Rose For Emily

"A Rose for Emily" made me think about a few things. It is difficult to see exactly what type of person Miss Emily was. She desired zero contact with other people, but at the end of the story, a iron-gray hair of hers is found next to Homer Barron's dead body. The hair was found on the pillow which layed on the opposite side of the bed, and there was also evidence of an indentation of a head in the pillow, which means that Miss Emily might have had feelings and emotions buried deep down.

I think that Miss Emily was crazy just like old lady Wyatt, but underneath all of her problems (denial, anti-social, unstableness) she was a normal human being with plenty of emotions and thoughts. It seems that she grew up wealthy, with many pressures of settling down with a man when she becomes of age. There is evidence in the beginning of the story that Miss Emily was a good-looking woman, and I think that she decided to tell everyone to "F off" and she would do whatever she wanted. She knew that she would have the money to live for many years, with or without her father, and she was not going to be told what to do and follow in line with how everyone else wanted her to live her life.

I am confused to why she killed Homer Barron. She had wanted nothing to do with any man her entire life, and all of a sudden she takes in a man. She buys him things and then kills him. I think that she grew a liking to Homer Barron, but he was gay so she killed him so that he would always be there to lay with her.