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A 3 page paper which examines why Emily murdered Homer in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” No additional sources cited.
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through the eyes of a simple observer, a member of her community. Emily is a woman who has obviously been subtly oppressed throughout her entire life and a woman who
obviously has passions and desires like any other human being. She is constricted, however, to the point where she no longer has the ability to express herself in a normal
fashion, driven by needs that will never be fulfilled. Human beings, in most cases, can only take so much oppression before they mentally snap in one way or another. While
some lose all sense of compassion and become bitter and angry people, others may well commit horrendous crimes through desperation and need. Such is the case with Emily.
Why Emily Committed Murder In Faulkners story one learns that Emily has always been oppressed by her father. She has never been allowed to have male suitors because she has
a position to keep up, a high socio-economic position of her family. She is wealthy and her station in life is far above that of other people. Her father never
seemed to believe any man was worthy of her in her past. The narrator tells the reader, "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and
such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back
to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door" (Faulkner). This presents the reader with an image of a woman who is clearly
constricted and controlled by her father. The townspeople note how Emily had an aunt who went insane and they felt for Emily in her past. The narrator states, in
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