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In the “A Rose for Emily” by Faulkner personalized the main characters in a weird way; for me at least. Each character plays an important role in the story. Emily is the classic outsider, controlling and limiting the town’s access to her true identity by remaining hidden. Emily lives in her own world. Refusing to have metallic numbers affixed to the side of her house when the town receives modern mail service, she is out of touch with the reality that constantly threatens to break through her carefully sealed perimeters Emily enforces her own sense of law and conduct, such as when she refuses to pay her taxes or state her purpose for buying the poison. Emily also skirts the law when she refuses to have numbers attached to her house when federal mail service is located. Homer, much like Emily, is an outsider, a stranger in town who becomes the subject of gossip. He came from the North, symbolizing modern and innovation to his Southern town. He is the charming man all the ladies want. But Emily wants him the most. She is willing to do anything to be by him. At the end when she bought the poison without any explanations, the town’s people thought she was going to kill herself because the way she acts and how she is secluded from everybody else. But in the end, she end ups killing Homer, her real love at first. Emily takes his life to achieve total power over him.