Marriage in A Rose for Emily Essay

Still Unhappy, Married or Unmarried

Being married or unmarried is not always happily ever after. It has been always believed that every woman wants to get married. This belief must be born in female bones since the time when a woman was meant to get married. Arthurs tend to stress the fact of a woman in a big white dress coming down the aisle on her special day. They fail to understand todays society where the marriage rate is dropping ever year. There are two authors that actually see things in todays perspective. Both William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Katherine Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall the protagonists are both obsessed with getting married, and they deal with it in different ways. Faulkner never marries the protagonist and has her to commit a brutal crime to get her happiness. Porter does the opposite, the protagonist does marry, but just not to the man she wanted to marry. In the end, both protagonists depressed and died unhappy.

Faulkners A Rose for Emily is not just about the protagonist, Emily not being able to be married. Its more about her whole life, the things that lead up to her unhappiness. The protagonists father had a huge impact on her life. He was the main reason she was the way she was. He sheltered her from the outside world. He kept her from friends, family and men. He believed they were too good for people. Then he finally pasted away. She finds love after a couple years of her fathers pasting. But that didnt last long, her sweetheart had deserted her (217). They never married. The protagonist was hardly seen after her sweetheart left her. Emily had finally gathered herself up again and had fallen in love with other man named Homer Barron. Throughout the times the two were seen together it was believed that, She will marry him (220). She had a hard time keeping him around for a long period of time. She had to find away to keep him there with her. She went out found a way to make that happen. I want some rat poison (218). She had entered a drug store with a plan that would keep him there so she would never end up alone again. Homer Barron had finally returned to her at dusk one evening, not knowing it was the last time he would see the outside. And that was the lasted we saw of Homer Barron (220). He was never seen leaving Emilys house.

On the other hand Porters The Jilting of Granny Weatherall it was all about her being married but just not to the man of her dreams. The protagonist Granny does end up being married, but only after her second trap down the aisle. Her first time around she was jilted by a man named George who she loved dearly. She never recovered from that and she always held it in her heart. She did physical move on but not emotionally as she wanted George to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman (781). She wanted to prove to him that she had forgotten him and she had still succeeded in life. She was happy with her life and was really in love with her husband John, A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him (781). She just wanted some type of closure.

Faulkners A Rose for Emily, the protagonist was depressed here whole life. She was not a people person. She would keep herself out of site. After her father died, she was seen least and least. After her father died she went out very little (217). The pasting of her father seems to have the same affect on as the going away of her sweetheart. After her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw here at all (217). No one ever seems to stay around her for a long period of time. Every time someone out her life disappeared it was like she went into this state of depression. She would look herself in her house not wanting to face the world.

Granny in Porters The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, was also a depress women, but her depression was a little different. She kind of held her depression inside. She showed that side to no one. Her depression comes from being jilted at the altar and not being able to marry the man she was really in love with. On her deaf bed she laid there sobbing about on how here first fianc missed out on a good life with her. She went to say that she still became and had a beautiful family without him. Tell him was given back everything that he took away and more. (781). She wanted to prove herself to him. That would be the only closure to the pain that he caused her.

Though both protagonist in Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall deal with the obsession of getting married in different, both protagonist end up dying unhappy and unsatisfied. In Faulkners A Rose for Emily the protagonist stays closed off in her house never talking to anyone. She was sometimes seen pick through on the windows. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs window (221). He had eventually fallen sick and dead in her home. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows. (221). She never once tried to fix her problems before she died. In Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall the protagonist also dies unhappy. She wanted to talk to George so badly. She wanted to get the pain he caused her of her chest. Oh, no, oh, God, no, there was something else besides the house and the man and the children. Something not given back.. (781). There was something else that George had not given back to her. She died wanting that something back.

Faulkner not at all hitched the protagonist and has her to commit an evil sin to get happiness. Porter does something that a reader wouldnt expect, the protagonist does wed, but just not to the man she wanted to marry. In the end, both protagonists were depressed and pasted away sad. Both William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Katherine Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall the protagonists are both fanatical with tying the knot, and they deal with it in different ways. Both authors proved that marriage is not always the key to happiness. Women are so dedicated the fact of being married, they tend to do things that are out of the character. They rush things and they accepted wrong things that are done to them just so they can be that Cinderella for one whole day. Marriage isnt what its cracked up to be.

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