For those that may have never seen the movie Psycho, Norman Bates is a psychopathic owner of a lone motel. Norman mummified his mother's body, and then proceeded to kill a traveling woman unlucky enough to stop at the motel. Norman is also a transvestite, because he kills the woman while dressed as his mother. Emily, herself, takes a slightly different approach. She participates in necrophilia, the sexual attraction to corpses, unlike Norman.
Emily and Norman are the same in the respect that they both encounter with feelings of abandonment. Norman by his domineering mother, and Emily by her controlling father.
Norman killing those who threatened to come between mother and son and that now mother had taken over Norman's mind completely. And Emily because she refuses to be left alone again, and in her deranged mind cannot comprehend that Homer doesn't love her.These two characters are so very interesting to watch and read, mostly because they are acted and written so well. Also, America seems to have a form of fascination with serial killers, or those that kill in general.
At first I did not understand the meaning behind the story of "A Rose for Emily" but now reading your blog and some other peoples comments and blogs I understand a little bit more about how her father's actions effected her. These stories about people killing other people and how they have such twisted minds kind of freaks me out, but it also can have the opposite effect. Stories that relate to "A Rose for Emily" can draw you in and keep your attention which I like better then a boring story.
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