EDI Lang through Lit - Character Description

TASK: Describe one of the characters from “A Rose for Emily.”

A ROSE for Emily is a story that revolves around the insanity that leads a most peculiar lady to kill the love of her life. The attractive and interesting Homer Barron is the terrible victim of Miss Emily’s passionate crime.

Homer Barron’s voice was big and attractive and his eyes lighter than his face; he was a big, dark, ready foreman yankee who had travalled together with niggers, mules and machinery all the way from the north of the USA to establish in Jefferson and work for a construction company.

Barron was an agreeable pretty person. He soon knew everybody in town - the little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers and whenever a lot of laughing was heard anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be there; in the center of the group.

Eventually he would start dating Miss Emily; the people in town could see them go out in a glittering yellow-wheeled buggy on Sunday afternoons. He, cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in yellow glove, a cocked hat in his head. She, with her head high, very high. They seemed happy.

The yankee and his couple were liked; everybody thought that they would marry some day. But Homer Barron was not a marrying man: he drank with younger men at the Elk’s club and there were also rumours that he liked them better than he liked women.