Journal 77: Pressure from Parents

Parents certainly have a lot of pressure and influence on the development and growth of a person. In Rose for Emily, the influence of the father on Emily is massive. First of all, the father is an aristocrat, therefore, Emily is also an aristocrat. Because of this title and status, Emily are looked with respect just because of her last name. This contributes to her character of being spoiled and which developed into a disregard to laws and rules and carefree personality. Emily also has pressure to keep up his title and status so she could not choose some Yankees from the north or he would be frowned upon. Her father also fend off suitors and that contributed to her desperate personality. Combining with her spoiled personality, he will want desperately want she wants and she could not understand if she could not get it or she would not allow the fact that she cannot get what is wants. This results to her killing Homer after Homer tells her that he is not going to be with her. She wants Homer desperately, when she can't have him, she kills him and sleeps beside him to have the illusion of having him around all the time and that he didn't reject her in the first place.