Jealousy In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

Emily has been feeling jealous in past relationships and between her and friends for the last four years, and she feels it’s uncontrollable. Emily describes her jealously feeling like she hates someone for a reason that is not valid enough. She explains that she might hate a certain person because her best friend Miranda hung out with them last weekend. She finds faults in that person that may not exist to the naked eye, or that she judgingly assumed. She may believe that Miranda shouldn’t hang out with them because they seem like an attention seeker even though she’s never talked to the person. Emily has rooted the base of her jealousy a combination of her mother, Linda, always showing more affection towards her brother Julio and an ex-boyfriend that mistreated her. According to Emily, her first real boyfriend cheated on her with one of his best lady friends. Emily said that she never hung out with this girl …show more content…
She constantly is in a thought of “they hate them”, “___ is better than me”, “did they ever like me”, and “I’m just annoying them.” She thinks about how she might be losing her friend/partner and her imperfections and jealousy issues are “driving them away.” She thinks how Marks best friend might be prettier, skinnier, or more sexually appealing than her. She also claimed that when she is upset about something she doesn’t feel hungry, or the will to put in effort in doing things like homework. She feels no energy to do things that theoretically will make her feel better because she is so tunneled in on what is going on inside her brain. Emily answered that she never feels like hurting herself intentionally or feeling suicidal but that she does feel like maybe if she left they would be happier without her in their life. These thoughts continue until the wave of reassurance comes from that specific person and tells her brain that she is important and