Anything for Love

In “A Rose for Miss Emily”, William Faulkner uses a setting from which he is both familiar and knowledgeable. For he grow-up in the south, some would say that he is a die-hard southern. “A Rose for Miss Emily” is set in a town that resembles the town in which he grow-up in as child and men in her life.
Perhaps the passing of Miss Emily’s father is the best thing that could happen to Miss Emily. After all she is 30 and not married, in the era in which the story is set most young ladies married well before they are 30 years old. While her father was alive he turned away any suitor that would call on Miss Emily. Now she has the chance to meet and marry someone this would be a difficult task at her age. But she is like a loaded pistol waiting to go off it not handle with gentle caring hands.
The character Homer Barron, could have been chosen as a suitor for many reasons one that comes to minds is he is the exact opposite of Miss Emily. He is “a Yankee, big...