Short story: Thesis

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The tell-tale heart and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” shares a similar theme in obsession leading to death. The narrator in “the tell-tale heart is fixated on the old man’s eye so much that it drives him to kill, even though he said himself,  “I loved the old man” . This is a very keen similarity to the character Emily in “A rose for Emily” who killed Homer Barron, even though they were friends and was believed to be lovers by people in the town. Both characters shared similarities, but there were also differences. The narrator in “The tell-tale heart” took pride in killing the old man; it almost seemed as if he got pleasure during the entire process. Emily took a different approach by gaining pleasure after the death of Homer Barron, sleeping by his side as if he was a significant other.