Women Who Murder Essay Research Paper Women

Women Who Murder Essay, Research Paper

Women who Murder

Marriage is a life long commitment between two people.

Vows are taken as a promise to one another, ? Till Death Do us

Part? may be the most well known vow, but with the two women I

will be discussing they take it into their own hands to speed up

the process. The following stories are about two women who commit

murder in some form, perhaps intentional or not who are not

punished as far as the story tells us. Fortunately, we have a

legal system that is designed to prevent these homicides and

programs specifically designed to help women in cases like these

that feel they have no other choice but to murder their husband

to achieve freedom. As you will see these women were so desperate

that they felt murder was their only option. One woman did it for

freedom, and the other for companionship, both are murderers any

way you put it.

Emily Grierson, lived alone in an old ? eyesore? of a house

that no one had been inside of since she stopped giving china

painting lessons ten years ago. She was considered a tradition in

her town, and was shown special treatment thanks to a former

mayor who?d pardoned her from the rules that applied to negro

women at that time. However, the next generation didn?t look upon

Emily so kindly. Tax forms were constantly mailed to her home,

the townspeople found the smell that seeped from her home so

unbearable that they snuck onto her property to correct the

situation. Emily had no contact with the townspeople, Until she

met Homer Barron, a Northerner foreman, notorious for drinking

and taking a liking to younger men.

Within a few days, Emily and Homer were seen

riding together in a buggy, and spending alot of time together.

The townspeople thought that the they would marry, but

when they heard that Emily bought arsenic they assumed she would

kill herself and were happy for her, they said ? it would be the

best thing ?. When the streets were done Homer disappeared, it

was assumed that he went to prepare for his marriage to Emily. He

returned a few days later and was never seen again. Miss Emily

was seen buying a men?s toiletry set along with men?s clothing

including a night shirt, from that point on it is assumed that

they are married . Some time after that, Miss Emily passed away.

A funeral was held, and once she was in the ground, the

townspeople opened up the room that noone had seen in nearly

forty years, what they found was quite disturbing. A room set up

for a bridal with a man?s suit and shoes looked almost as if it

were just placed there, with the exception of the dust and

discoloring. They found the man it belonged to laying in the bed

decomposed with traces of an embrace that had long been

unreturned.It was Homer Barron, and the pillow next to him had an

indentation with a long strand of iron gray hair resting on it.

Miss Emily was unavailable for

questioning due to her death, so it is assumed that the arsenic

from earlier in the story was not used for rats, but to keep

Homer there with her, for fear of loneliness or perhaps she was

insane, the author does not disclose this information. I think

that she killed him in fear that he would leave her, and this is

the first man she would be permitted to see since her father?s

watchful eyes were no longer around. This is truly a case of

homicide, unlike the next story I will discuss where intentional

murder is committed in a different way.

Delia Jones is a washwoman in a poverty

stricken area of Florida. She is married to a man named Sykes who

is abusive to her in more ways than one. The verbal abuse is more

evident than the physical aspect of it. Delia had to endure years

of Sykes comments on her weight and profession, along with being

assaulted and tormented by his cruel jokes. Sykes openly has an

affair with a fat woman named Bertha. He was paying for her to

stay in town, even though Delia was at home cooking and cleaning,

trying to make a living. Sykes preys on Delia?s fear of snakes

from the beginning of the story, first with the whip resting on

her shoulder, then he takes it too far and brings home a real

snake. After asking him numerous times to get rid of the snake

Delia finally voices her aggression and hate for her husband. He

doesn?t hit her this time, he makes a few threats and retreats

out the door. When Sykes didn?t return that night, Delia felt

great, thinking maybe he was really gone for good, freedom at

last. While she is finishing her wash she spots the snake in a

basket, somehow it escaped from its soap box in the kitchen.

Without a second glance Delia ran out of the house and climbed

onto the roof of the haybarn. She slept there, too scared to go

back into the house. In the morning she

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