A Rose For Emily Character Analysis

Adapting to changes is apart of one’s life but for these two characters adapting to change is the toughest obstacle in their life. If someone is able to adapt to different changes in life, they can simply feel like a loner. According to the online source Dictionary, a loner is a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others. Two characters in literature, Emily and Krebs, both ca not adapt to change and are also loners. In a Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, Emily is the protagonist. Emily is unable to adapt to change, she does not want to change. In a way she wants to stay in the past. She refuses to realize that everything around her is adapting to change, like the people and the town itself. It is a time period she is comfortable with. In Soldier’s Home, by Ernest Hemingway, Krebs is the protagonist. Krebs tries to fit in with the people in his town when he gets back …show more content…
Emily does not like the idea of change. Change scares her and she does not want to face it. The town was beginning to become more modern, putting on mailboxes. Emily did not want ‘’them to fasten the metal numbers and attach the mailbox on her door’’(87). She did not listen to them. Like Emily, Krebs does not like change. Ever since Krebs came back from war he has been doing the same daily routine. Did not really like trying something new, no change at all. His mother pressures him into getting over the war and to start to settle down like the others in town. His mother tells him,’’ Charley Simmons, who is just your age, has a good job and is going to be married. The boys are settling down; they’re all determined to get somewhere; you can see the boys like Charley Simmons are on their way to being really a credit to the community’’(107). She also wants him to get a job, in anything. But Krebs is not ready to change and start a new life because he is still stuck in his old one. He is not