Miss Emily In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

“A Rose for Emily” is about a woman name Emily Grierson who lived in the South where a social class structure of a community were determined by a person’s behavior. Miss Emily is the daughter of a rich upper class father who was quite active in the community. So it is expected for the community to respect his daughter, Emily. Because of Mr. Grierson’s standing in the community, many allowances were made for her strange behavior. Miss Emily does not pay for her taxes because her father, supposedly, did a favor for the town of Jefferson. Emily’s marriage to Homer Barron could have been a disgrace to the community because of his occupation and place of birth. He was a Northerner and a day laborer. The marriage gave Emily an opportunity to redeem herself by playing the role of a wife, which was expected of women with a high status in society. Miss Emily represented the women in society who were unable to escape and find happiness because of a social class that dictated the standards for living and preventing Emily from seeking the mental health help she …show more content…
Her great losses caused her to distance herself from the people and was seen as the one with mental depression. After her father’s death she became distant with the rest of the world and refused to make friends. The community tried there best to change Miss Emily’s behavior but she did not attempt to change her lifestyle. Eventually Emily started to sink deeper in the world of insanity. The townspeople feelings for Miss Emily did not fade away even though they discovered Homer’s body being found. They attended her funeral in numbers. Faulkner insists “The held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre, and the very old men...some in their brushed Confederate