Is Emily Guerson Guilty of Murdering Homer

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Prewriting for the short story analysis Is Emily Grierson guilty of murdering Homer Barron? As you answer, consider possible extenuating circumstances, and analyze the evidence for the murder (or lack of it) from the story. Do not retell the story. You are making text-based speculations and looking for subtle evidence based on close reading. In my opinion Emily Grierson is definitely guilty of murdering Homer Barron; however, there are some parts of the reading which suggest that Emily had some help with the murder as well as some kind of mental illness which may have been responsible for her actions as well as the murder of Homer Barron. From the story we find that Emily Grierson is an old southern woman who is considered a monument in her town because of her stead fast way of sticking to the old southern ways. In short her life was not empty of tragedy although there is no mention of her mother, “We had a long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horse whip” but also how her family had mental illness from when her great aunt went completely crazy and that her own father thought none of the young men who were courting Miss Emily were good enough for her (par. 25). Also after her father dies she is in complete denial that he is dead and acts as though he is still alive until the townspeople almost have to use force to take the body away (par. 27). This also explains why the body of Homer Barron is kept after she kills him. For a while after her father dies she is sick and it isn’t until the summer after her fathers death that she is seen again with a northern foreman named Homer Barron. They are seen together taking rides in his buggy with a matched team of bays (par.30) and it is assumed by the townsfolk they are having

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