Friday, January 10, 2020
Emily the Criminal Mastermind Essay
In the story A Rose for Emily, Emily murders her lover using poison. The readers are led on to think that she kills him because she does not want him to leave her, which is what he intends to do. Her relationship with Homer Barron, her lover, is a normal relationship; nothing indicates that their relationship is in any kind of trouble. Having examined her relationship and characters, Emily can be seen as a master criminal. As opposite as they are of each other, they are attracted to one another. Although the relationship between Emily and her father is dysfunctional, her relationship between her and Homer is a healthy one. Homer works with a construction company, and he is in the leadership position in his workplace. He can be seen as a joker as he makes everyone laugh wherever he goes. He is a popular person because he makes himself well known to everyone in town. Wherever he goes, little boys would follow him to hear him talk and tell jokes. She, on the other hand, is always quiet. She doesn’t talk to anyone in town. There are gossips of her but she would never confront them; instead, she just ignores them. As opposite as Emily’s personalities are to that of Homer’s, they get along with each other. This shows that she can be sociable. After all, she can get along with the most popular guy in town. She is very calm, cool and collective. After her father dies, some people visit her to offer sympathy, yet she is â€Å"dressed as usual with no trace of grief on her face.†Even though she has killed Homer, when the people in the town visit her because she doesn’t pay her property tax, she speaks to them as though there isn’t anything wrong. When she goes to buy the poison to kill Homer, she speaks with certainty that she wants to buy the poison. â€Å"I want arsenic,†she says. This indicates that she has contemplated to kill Homer. When the druggist insists that she tells him what she is going to use it for, she silen ces him with her look. She knows what she is doing. She can be seen as controlling and manipulative by the silence of the Negro, her house keeper. The Negro goes out to the store every now and then to buy food from the market, he doesn’t talk to anyone. Though the author does not indicate whether the Negro knows about Homer’s dead corpse in the bedroom, it’s hard to imagine that he doesn’t know about it. The neighbors complain of the smell, which they do not know that it’s from a dead body. For the duration that the body has been in the house, it’s impossible to imagine that the Negro has no knowledge of it. Assuming that he knows, yet he doesn’t talk to anyone about it shows that she has control over him. Ruling out that she’s suffering from insanity, one can only conclude that she’s criminal mastermind. Even though her father is abusive, she is able to have meaningful relationship. Her relationship with Homer shows that she can be sociable. After her father’s death, she shows no grief. While having Homer’s body in the bedroom upstairs, she attends to her guests as though nothing is wrong. At the same time, she is able to keep the butler from talking to anyone about anything. Planning to kill Homer, she buys the poison without any hesitation even though the druggist asks her many questions. Using the control that she has over the person under her and her environment, she gets away with murder.
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