Plot 3. A Rose for Emily

"Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elk's Club--that he was not a marrying man." pg. 287

During small group discussions today, my group discussed Emily's motive for killing Homer. We came up with the idea that he refused to marry her. He probably had several reasons for not wanting to marry her. They were not compatible for each other. He was from the North, and she was from the South. The text mentioned that Homer "was not the marrying type" and "liked men." I think it would be rather difficult for her to persuade a homosexual man to marry her. I think that Emily became enraged by his refusal to marry her, and she retaliated by killing him. She has a personality complex that makes it had for her to let things go. She couldn't accept the death of her father, so she stored his corps with her until authorities took it away. Also, she could not accept that Homer wouldn't marry her, so she killed him and stored his body so that it seemed like he was still with her.