In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily is suspected of acting the way she, because of her father.
“In this case there was the young girl with a young girl's normal aspirations to find love and then a husband and a family, who was brow-beaten and kept down by her father, a selfish man who didn't want her to leave home because he wanted a housekeeper…and a family.” …show more content…
So, Miss Emily had to wait for her father to die. When, she meets a man, Homer Barron, she does not really know what to do with the relationship. Miss Emily is using her past of not knowing what to do with a boy so she gets the wrong idea and kills Homer with Arensenic. While Miss Emily was at the drug store making the purchuse, the clerk knew exactly what arsenic is used for. This is a sense of forshadowing and the use of fear in Faulkner’s writing. Faulkner also uses a suspicious feeling, and suspicion can cause someone fear. In Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” Nancy and Jesus cause fear among the Compson family. When Jesus found out Nancy was pregnant, but he was not the father; plotted vengence against the man who impregnanted his wife. Faulker is using the fear and suspicion of what Jesus may do to the man that impregnanted his wife. In the begininng of the story, there is a scence of fear about