Everyday everyone experiences harsh scrutiny for any and all decisions they make. Whether it’s societal expectations, grades, or impressing our parents or spouses, we all seem to come under fire. This is vividly shown throughout “A Rose for Emily”, while trying to find a man to identify herself with, Emily goes utterly insane. The townspeople cannot seem to grasp the reasoning behind Emily’s behaviors, so in return they think she is off her rocker. Emily’s father was manipulative and never let her find true love; without anything to base what love should look like on she had an extreme phobia of abandonment. After her father’s death, she looked for love and thought she had found her prince, but not all fairytales come true. Her lover, Homer,
