A Rose for Emily The story “A Rose for Emily” is full of shady and peculiar behavior as Emily lives an “isolated” life. Everyone in the town truly has no proposal of what might be taking place inside the Grierson home. As soon as her father passed away, barely anyone had contact or witnessed her out in public. What could keep this crazy lady from wanting to interact with any outsiders? I believe Emily’s father played a vast role for everything that took place after his death. Following Emily’s father’s death, a man by the name of Homer Barron comes into Emily’s life. He is a Yankee and sidewalk paver which is everything that her father wasn’t. Her father was a big southern man and was looked upon as upper class. Emily falls in love with Homer for numerous reasons. First of all he is someone her father would never approve of her being with because of his background. This is a way of her “getting back” at her father for all the years she was under his sort of “torture.” Mr. Grierson also never wanted Emily to be with another guy so she was playing the “bad girl” role. All Emily really was looking for in the scheme of things though was someone to replace her father. He was everything her father was but at the same time everything her father hated. She wanted a man in her life that wanted to marry her and spend the rest of their lives together. Homer though even had told Emily that he liked men and was not the marrying type. The word that comes to my mind is Gay. Homer liked Emily but not in reality when it came to things because he liked guys. She kills him eventually and keeps him around her acting as the “Rose” of her life. Homer being dead represented the love that her father brought her being dead also. Throughout this whole story we see isolationism and denial of time and change. Emily lives a sexually abused closed life from everybody else and tries to see good from it. Instead her father creates a whole new world that she lives in making “time stop” for...