"A Rose for Emily" and Character of Emily

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This paper explains how Faulkner demonstrates how the character of Miss Emily and the superficially genteel character of the small Southern town in which she lives enable the murder of Homer, Emily?s beloved, to take place without the town punishing Emily?s crime.

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"The murder is foreshadowed by the way the town and Emily's father treats the woman her entire life. Her denial of reality is encouraged by the town's protection of its aristocracy and her father's feeling that no one is good enough for his daughter. This special treatment allows Miss Emily to deny her need to pay taxes and the demise of her father. In her mind she eventually becomes "married" to the suitor of her choice through death, and to continues to enact the persona of the proper Southern belle, despite her status as a murderer."

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