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Why Murder

In the short story “A Rose For Emily” and the short story “Killings” people have been murdered and the motivations for the killings are understandable but never the less still murders. The reason for murder in “A Rose For Emily” is not as clearly shown as with “Killings”, that story is a classic “eye for an eye” type story. The main character in “A Rose for Emily” (Emily) and the main character in “Killings” (Matt) both kill out of love, but the types of love seem to be different.
Emily was not what you would call the average murderer. She was strange however, after her own death (which is known to ...

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have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.” (75) Here is the first indicator that her motives for killing her only love Homer Baron are founded on an emotional type of basis. Her father believed that no one was ever good enough for his daughter, and because she never got close to anyone she didn’t know how to let go either, she never experienced that kind of love you get when you meet that special someone. Her unwillingness to be alone and unloved again becomes evident when in part IV of the story it looks as though Emily and Homer are to be married. She has bought him personally monogrammed gifts, the people in town believe that they will be married and then all of a sudden it seems that maybe they are not going get married. He leaves town for a bit and this probably made Emily go crazy. She finally meets the only love of her life and he is not being serious with her, so what does she do the next time she sees him? She poisons the guy and keeps ...

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Added: 8/24/2007 05:27:56 PM
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