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After reading this novel for the first time, I felt confused because the word “rose” in the title didn’t appear in the article. Later, after I read it for several times, I understand. In my opinion, the “rose” refers to Emily herself: she was the rose with thorns all over her body, making others difficult to approach and only bloomed for the one she loved best.
She was proud but also unlucky. Her misfortune was destined when she was born: she grew up in a family in which father decided everything and being a traditional woman was her duty. Her father was a feudally autocratic patriarch. He drove all the pursuers around Emily away because he thought they were not deserved. In his eyes, the family’s reputation was more important than his daughter’s happiness. Even though Emily hated that her father deprived her right to love, she still regarded him as a protector. It was the society environment that led to her character like this, forever ambivalent.
Later her father died. If her father was the biggest block, then after his death, Emily should gain her happiness. However, this was not the case. She fell in love with a worker who came from the north America—it could not happen forever if his father was alive—she flung aside the habiliments of her dignity; she pulled all her thorns out; she fought against people’s prejudice. She felt that she gained the man even though she lost the world and she set up her mind to marry him. However, the man refused her and claimed that he liked man better than woman.
The man totally destroyed Emily. Her tolerance and giving bring back his heartless abandon. Loving him so much, Emily chose the ultimate way to love him
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continually—to kill him, to own his body rather than his heart.
I respect Emily because I think she was brave. She burdened all the dignity as an aristocratic miss while she was also filled with the pursue of love as a young girl. It can not be denied that her love was selfish, but what she did was only to own what she liked. She regarded the man as her dependence of the rest life while he destroyed her hope.
The house which she lived in was her home but also her grave. There buried her youth and happiness. Sometimes I will consider Emily’s love fruitless because she got nothing and lost her youth; however, sometimes I will consider her as the person who truly understand love because she could do everything for the man she loved, even though at last she would die alone, even though no one could understand her or had sympathy for her, she still love without any reservation. She acted her life as a song, a swan song, to sing the praises of true love, even though no one was listening.
Emily loved as she had ever been hurt.
