“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was published in the year 1930 (Wikipedia). Although some readers might say that Emily Grierson, the main character of “A Rose for Emily” was in control of her life, and she led herself through what made her feel happy, she was actually a terrifying person who lived a violent life herself. Emily Grierson was one of the Southern town’s old women who received respect from the townspeople, which explains that she was one of the well to do families in her town “Jefferson.” Southern women are friendly, welcoming, and they usually neatly decorate their houses with flowers. Nevertheless, Emily acted like a Southern gothic by doing the exact opposite. She was also a daughter of a control freak, who strongly believed that no guy was worthy of her. Her father was an overprotective person. He had no one, but Emily. When he died, she had become a lonely person with a thirsty soul clung to the past and did not want to move forward. Even though this description of Emily makes us feel sympathetic for her situation, our readers will realize by the end of the story that she is a terrible person by choice.
Emily’s father was a watchful …show more content…
She did everything that she was not supposed to do to be in the Southern culture. The epiphany in “A Rose for Emily” is that the townspeople might not have necessarily loved her, but they respected her as being in their society. She was attached to her past. She represented a South gothic woman with her clothes, dusty house and her archaic letters. The townspeople no longer respected her when her true intentions showed off. Emily deserved the tribute “A Rose” as a symbol of the old South dignity. No one should feel sorry for Emily, since those were her personal decisions. Emily, the necrophilia (an erotic or sexual attraction to corpses) loved a man in a horrible way that no sane person wants to be loved; yet it is still considered
Emily’s father was a watchful …show more content…
She did everything that she was not supposed to do to be in the Southern culture. The epiphany in “A Rose for Emily” is that the townspeople might not have necessarily loved her, but they respected her as being in their society. She was attached to her past. She represented a South gothic woman with her clothes, dusty house and her archaic letters. The townspeople no longer respected her when her true intentions showed off. Emily deserved the tribute “A Rose” as a symbol of the old South dignity. No one should feel sorry for Emily, since those were her personal decisions. Emily, the necrophilia (an erotic or sexual attraction to corpses) loved a man in a horrible way that no sane person wants to be loved; yet it is still considered