A Rose For Emily Literary Analysis

According to William Faulkner's story, "A Rose for Emily", [a] Rose for Emily means that “the poor woman had had no life at all” (Faulkner, 224). Miss Emily was locked up by her father since she was a young girl. He believes that there is no one computes his wealth and be around with his daughter; he chases all Emily’s suitors away in the belief that they are not good enough for her. By controlling her, he robbed her precious young life and made her to fail to unattended her valuable and beautiful life. He ruined her life and made her to leave a long and unhappy life as an unmarried woman. She represents a real, living person and symbolizes for many things such as hate, love, revenge, and neglected on Southern townspeople. Miss Emily is living a sad life when she is growing up because her father isolates her. He believes no man was good enough for her …show more content…
A relationship develops between the Yankee Homer Barron and Miss Emily without her father's interference, she does as she pleases. She rides out in public with him. Even though the women in the town can only say "poor Emily," at this single point in her life Emily is happy and her life seems to move forward where she can be happy and love somebody. Miss Emily wants to be secure that no one else would leave and abandon her anymore so that she kills Homer Barren and kept him with her forever as lover. Moreover, at the end of the story, the story describes that the room was furnished for a bridal in rose color and the story "A Rose for Emily," represents rose as a symbol for love. Additional symbol, Emily herself can represent like a flower, colorful and bright in her youth. She became a flower her father intended to keep long beyond its short life cycle. She would blossom, but never see the potential of an unadulterated life because of her father’s overprotected