Loneliness in William Faulkners A Rose For Emily and Anton Chekhovs Misery :: A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner

Loneliness in William Faulkners A Rose For Emily and Anton Chekhovs MiseryAlthough the occasions, setting, and time period of each fiction is unique, the character of Miss Emily in A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner and Iona in Misery by Anton Chekhov share much in common. Iona and Emily spent their finished lives searching for fulfillment. At the end of their lives they are still lonely souls - never achieving fulfillment. It is so terrible with A Rose For Emily, the horrible feelings come up immediately when the story ends with two dead bodies in the old and impure house. One is Homer Barron, Emilys lover. The other is Emily herself. What a pity for a woman like Emily. No, Emily is not really a woman. She is only a tike (or a daughter). Since being born, her life was framed strictly by her egoistical father. Miss Emily, a slender figure in white in the canground, her father a large silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. Miss Emily could not keep an eye on her own real life. And then her father died. Ein truthone in town was very pleased that Emily might have a chance to be quick from then on. But very shortly after the shock of her fathers death, Emily had another(prenominal) shock when her sweetheart left her alone and went away. Nobody was expecting that. Poor Emily She was just a little girl having no experience over 30 years of age. Homer, the young man that everyone believed would marry her, was just a liar, as well. And as a result, Emily killed Homer and lay beside his dead body for years. At the age of forty, Emily was still a child -- an old child with forlornness and unfulfilled soul. William Faulkner introduces the story with the gathering of the whole town at Emilys death. The author marks a big curious question for all readers. What happened and how? thence he goes back to the past of Miss Emily, leading us to live around the closed time circl e of her life present back to past and past to present. This is an unusual order. The normal time order consists the onward motion of the human being from birth through youth, to age and final death. The astonishment that Faulkner has given produces a confusion in Emilys life.