In “A Rose for Miss Emily” by William Faulkner, Miss Emily is not in fact the champion of the values her town tries to preserve; rather, she is a victim to them. Miss Emily was made the victim by her father and his values, keeping her from dating any man that he thought was not fit for her. The old maid had also fell victim to her townsfolk since they too maintained Southern customs. Miss Emily Grierson had become a victim to the tradition of marrying her first courter, after her father’s death of course. In the first place, Mr. Grierson denied his daughter of any chance to get married. His stubborn refusal of all courters was the first insight of how Miss Emily was the victim. The Southern values were the ideological law that these people
