Compare Eveline And A Rose For Emily And Desirees Baby

The Cost of Love In the three stories â€Å"Eveline†, â€Å"A Rose for Emily†, and â€Å"Desiree’s Baby† three single women go about love in three different ways. Their struggles for love are similar; the decisions they made you will not believe. One thing you can say about all the women is their poor love lives. With their fathers in their way, the women find it hard to find love. Love is a four letter word that everyone wants, but some never get to experience the happiness. While Eveline, Miss Emily, and Desiree have controlling fathers, they want love; one walked away from her happiness, one kills for it, and another kills herself. The youngest of the three the 19-year-old Eveline is left to take care of her home, siblings, and violent†¦show more content†¦It is noted in the passage that â€Å"Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man† (4). First her fath er runs away men, then when a man finally comes around he is homosexual. One day Miss Emily goes to the druggist and says â€Å"I want arsenic† (3). It is after seeing this that the people in town started to think she was going to commit suicide (4). Homer barron leaves and returns after Miss Emily’s two cousins leave. The people in the town never see him again and they say â€Å"the one we believed would marry her †¦ had deserted her. The body of Homer Barron was found on the bed with a piece of Miss Emily’s gray hair next to the body. And then there is Desiree, who is married to Armand. The two have a child; and months after being born the relationship turns volatile . After Armand’s mood changes â€Å" Desiree was miserable enough to die†(3). After asking Armand what he thinks on the skin color of their child, and he tells her that it is beause the baby is not white, and she is not white. In notes that he finds Armand reads But above all , she wrote, night and day, I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery(6). In the time period in the story having a child that is not white is a disgrace. Armands Battle