A Rose For Emily

The single gray hair discovered on a second pillow on the bed, where the rotting corpse of Homer Barron was, represented Emily’s isolation. The hair was a symbol of the loneliness that she endured when her father drove all the men in her life away. Homer was an extension of all her abandonment issues and a life left unfulfilled.

"Unlike the majority of the ladies in town, Miss Emily experienced neither the joys of marriage nor the fulfillment of child-bearing."