"A Rose for Emily"; a love to die for.

In an earlier posting I wrote that a character is what makes the story come alive and memorable.  In my reading  "A Rose for Emily" , William Faulkner, the author, makes the female protagonist your classic outsider who is "Flat" because she is your stereotypical southern eccentric.  

She is also "Stock" in that she is fearless and somewhat reckless , she enforces her own personal laws of conduct by refusing to pay taxes and will not state her reasons for buying the poison and when the federal mail comes calling, she flat out refuses to attach numbers to her house.  Emily lives her life on her own terms. 

I consider her also to be a  "Round" character  in that she is a muted mysterious figure and subject to extremely bizarre behavior and the object of everyone's gossip and speculation.  

Is it obsessive love OR just plain lunacy when she kills a man to keep him enclosed to ensure he will never leaver her.  Necrophiliac is a sexual desire for dead bodies, but looking at it from a broader sense it also means "powerful desire to romantically control another".  Well, Emily is making sure that her man has nothing to say about that!!  LOL.

Yet she ultimately transferred her affections to Homer, ..tsk...tsk..poor Homer met his doom by loving Emily too. 

In my view, I don't blame mentally unstable Emily for her actions. I'm not promoting her horrific actions but the strand of hair is a reminder of her desperate desire to keep what she once loved.  Some of the perverted things people do in the name of love and happiness.    
 "True Love" comes once in a lifetime, how far would you go to preserve your love next to you?