It Might be Schizophrenia By Andres Malagon
The short story, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, is an amazing, suspenseful story about Emily Grierson; she is the main character in the story. She is a lonely, troubled and eccentric lady who lives in the same old house where she was born and raised. Emily has been living in this house and taking care of her father all her life. However, when her father died, she decided not to leave her old house and began to develop a series of behaviors that can lead the reader to think about a mental condition. By examining Emily’s behavior, her social relationships and the towns people lack of response, one can infer that Emily suffers from schizophrenia.
Emily is an isolated woman who lives by herself, does not like to be around people in public spaces, and she does not like to have visitors inside her house. An example of this behavior is found when towns people visit her home to talk about her taxes: “knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since [Emily] ceased giving china- painting lessons eight or ten years earlier” ( Faulkner 907). In this particular part of the story the narrator …show more content…
The story portraits the mental illness of Emily leading the reader in to clues and passages that at the end became crucial to understand the stages of schizophrenia not only by Emily’s behavior, also by the whole chaos and confusion of a dysfunctional environment and how it affects the daily lives of the people who have this condition. It gives the reader the opportunity to identify de different stages of schizophrenia that Emily went through in the story by making emphasis in the internal struggle of Emily’s to keep her fantasy
The short story, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, is an amazing, suspenseful story about Emily Grierson; she is the main character in the story. She is a lonely, troubled and eccentric lady who lives in the same old house where she was born and raised. Emily has been living in this house and taking care of her father all her life. However, when her father died, she decided not to leave her old house and began to develop a series of behaviors that can lead the reader to think about a mental condition. By examining Emily’s behavior, her social relationships and the towns people lack of response, one can infer that Emily suffers from schizophrenia.
Emily is an isolated woman who lives by herself, does not like to be around people in public spaces, and she does not like to have visitors inside her house. An example of this behavior is found when towns people visit her home to talk about her taxes: “knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since [Emily] ceased giving china- painting lessons eight or ten years earlier” ( Faulkner 907). In this particular part of the story the narrator …show more content…
The story portraits the mental illness of Emily leading the reader in to clues and passages that at the end became crucial to understand the stages of schizophrenia not only by Emily’s behavior, also by the whole chaos and confusion of a dysfunctional environment and how it affects the daily lives of the people who have this condition. It gives the reader the opportunity to identify de different stages of schizophrenia that Emily went through in the story by making emphasis in the internal struggle of Emily’s to keep her fantasy