The person whom was recounting the story gave foundation about Emily. Somebody knew her or her family and they were watching. The townspeople was interested with Emily and her family however when Emily separated herself far from the townspeople, they…
Throughout the story, one can see Emily’s unusual relationships with her father, the community, and her lover. Emily withdraws from the present time of reality into the timelessness of delusions. Her father’s love of the old South was embedded into the relationship he had with her by not letting any man of the new age come near his daughter—the last of her kind. It can be inferred that of the fathers love is a factor that contributed to Emily’s acts, “[the community] remember[ed] all the young men her father had driven away” (Faulkner 98). When Emily’s father dies, her refusal to accept his death suggests the she denies this old way of life is truly gone.…
It was he who chased away all her suitors when she was younger, believing that they are not good enough for a Grierson. Her father controlled her life absolutely when she was younger, never allowing her the chance to marry. In a particularly vivid portion of the story, the townspeople describe how they view the two: “We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the backflung front door” (716). This painting of the two of them perfectly describes the relationship between the two. When her father was alive, Miss Emily had no control over her own life; he decided which men were good enough for her, and because he thought that “none of the young men were quite good enough for” her, she missed out on her chances love and a family (716).…
Miss Emily Grierson presented herself as an old southern grand lady in face of the drastic change of time. She has attempted to keep the respectability of social class her father has earned. In fact, she was mentally fragile and does not want to face the reality. For so long, she kept herself from the outside world and has gradually formed twisted psyches. Her memory still lingered in the days of the past, when her father has kept the wide plantation.…
The problem with Emily In the passage “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the protagonist Emily Grierson who lived in the south where a person’s social class determined the expectations of a person’s behavior and how society viewed and treated them. Emily Grierson is an older woman who comes from a wealthy family but suffers from schizophrenia. “Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent, illogical thoughts, and bizarre behavior” (Kazdin 2000) Miss Emily goes through many obstacles and the town of Jefferson where she resided feels pity for her but Miss Emily still demands respect and dignity.…
It leaves Miss Emily’s character a mystery and it is for the reader to draw inferences on why Miss Emily acted the way she did and what were her reasons behind the death of Humor. In the last paragraph it states how there was a gray hair in the pillow next to the dead body which makes the reader wonder how it got there or if Miss Emily had been laying beside him these past years. The author also uses imagery to describe Miss Emily through the course of the years as her figure changed. This added great importance because it could be understood to have a higher…
Emily’s father and Homer Barron. Faulkner implies the resistance of Emily to change by using the figurative language of foreshadowing, to create a tone of longing and authority through the father of Miss. Emily. Miss. Emily’s father was the first male figure presented in Miss.…
“A Rose for Emily” is not just a story about a deranged women obsessed with the fear of being a disappointment to her father, but a story of a women who kept all of her conflicts buried by using defenses such as denial. The to-close relation between Emily and her father had a permanent impact on the future life of Emily. Her father’s motive to indulge her in assumed close relationship is considered a protective tool. To protect Emily’s holiness from future potential suitors, he must turn against her, unaware of the consequences on the psychological and emotional life of Emily. There were plenty of motives behind Emily’s odd ways.…
The final portrait of Emily as an old woman, framed in the doorway while discussing her taxes, is a polar opposite of the portrait of her youth: “They rose when she entered – a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with tarnished gold head. Her skeletons were small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her”. (Faulkner, 1) This passage presents her image as obesity overwhelms her small figure, displaying the outcome of seclusion over the year.…
The father-daughter relationship seemed to reflect an emotional distance as the father was always seen standing in front of Emily with his horsewhip, while she stood in the foreground all dressed in white (Faulkner 2). In contrary, Emily’s intimacy towards her father presented itself upon his death, when she could not admit he was dead and refused to have the body removed from the home (Faulkner 2). Although, the townspeople did not describe her at that point as being crazy, they said she “broke down” (had a psychotic occurrence in which she retreated from reality), and that she had “to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will” (Faulkner 2). Immediately following her father’s death, Emily recoiled into her childhood by cutting her hair short and isolating herself in the house like an abandoned orphan (Faulkner 3). At this point the reader can directly connect these events with Electra Complex.…
The ultimate goal of a young woman in the south was to find love and marry, that is if her father did not chase possible husbands away. Emily was an eccentric figure who changed from a joyful and vibrant child to a secretive and mentally ill woman. After her father’s death, she was lonely, as a result of him ensuring that she would never marry. Emily had to face her father driving away young men in town, who he believed were not good enough for her. In William Faulkner 's, “A Rose For Emily,” he uses the killing of Homer, old southern traditions, and Emily’s ego to show that she is desperate for love and enhance the overall meaning that Emily is unable to let go of the past, only preserve it.…
“We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will (136). “A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner during the transition of the south from the antebellum era towards the modern future. I chose the last paragraph in the second portion of the story.…
As Greg Iles once said, “Sothern Gothic is alive and well. It’s not just a genre, it is a way of life.” That very statement exudes throughout William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily.” Sothern Gothicism is often characterized by a near-obsession with the dark nature of humanity, sickness, and disease. It is defined as an originally European form by tradition that depicts a sense of moral decay and depravity of the region.…
Miss Emily was represented as a lady who was portrayed as dysfunctional without a male figure in her life. She was so attached to a male’s love that she didn’t want to give up her father’s body. The desire to not be alone overwhelmed her inner body. In the text it states, “she told them that her father was not dead…she did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body” (Faulkner 160) . The loneliness she knew she would embody drove her to the complete edge.…
After the passing of her father, Emily had a hard time letting go “and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead.” (Faulkner, 1931, 84). It seemed after his death, all of Emily’s lovers abandoned her. Emily was a grown woman but could not handle relationships like other normal women would have.…