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The story “A Rose for Emily” was William Faulkner’s first published in 1930. This story could be called a horror story and even
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The Robbing of Emily's Love The story "A Rose for Emily" was William Faulkner's first published in 1930. This story could be called a horror story and even physiological short story (281). The story is about Emily Grierson, a woman whose life is by a narrator that is unknown, it could possibly be someone whom knew Emily; this narrator represents the attitudes, ideas, and the gossip of the community. Emily became deeply depressed by the death of her father. It wasn't until his she meet a Northerner by the name of Homer Barron. When she is faced with no love from Homer, she murdered him by arsenic poison, possibly after she found out that he liked men, and she was used by him so the townsman would not know of his sexuality, more or less so the townsmen wouldn't know he was gay. It was discovered after Emily's death and the...
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