A Rose For Emily

A Rose For Emily is for me how people perceive someone versus how that person really is. "held themselves to high for what they really were." They were looked at as a prominent family at one point. Her father turned away every suitor she ever had because he was not good enough for her. We then find out later that she poisoned her only lover and kept him at her house with him. She would lay with him at night even years and years after his death. I feel as though Emily wanted to keep him with her always, so he could never leave her like everyone else in her life had. Her father left her, the towns people had left her and so on. Like many people today, Emily is just desperate to be loved, desperate enough to even kill. Though all this is horrible, her pride and strength of purpose tend to lessen her horrible act.