"Loneliness Can Cause You Do To Strange Things"

Submitted by rustyc on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM



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"Loneliness Can Cause You Do To Strange Things"

Loneliness cause you to do strange things
In "A Rose for Emily" by, William Faulkner, one might think she is a crazy old lady because she has closed herself off to the world. I believe Emily was just a sheltered person, lonesome for love and caught between old and new times.
Emily grew up in a family believed to be insane by the town folk. Her Great-Aunt had gone completely crazy and her father overprotected her believing no one was good enough for this daughter. So when her father died she had no one. The town people wanted to pity her, but she held her head high.
When Homer Barron came into her life, shortly after her father died, the town folk talked even more. They did not think she would have an interest in a Yankee, much less one who liked men. However, she started being seen riding around town with him on Sunday afternoons. She had even bought toiletry items with his initials on it. So that did it, the town people were happy. They had finally gotten married. But then Homer disappeared.
Times had changed and the newer generation had taken hold or the town, but Emily refused to participate. She had shut herself up in her house. Folks started complaining, but no one knew what to do. It seems this town was always trying to tend to other peoples business.
Emily had grown very old and was getting ill. The only one to come and go from her house was her Negro helper, who took care of her. Then one day she died, alone.
Emily Grierson was not an old crazy woman. She was just plain lonesome. She tried to hold on to something she cared deeply about in her own way. Truly, loneliness will cause you to do strange things.

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