Thinking about the past and looking back at how life used to be is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, some find appeasement and placidity in abandoning the past and accepting the present. However, there are those who cannot seem to avoid the past and the effect it has on their lives. Dwelling in these past memories and refusing to move on can become very detrimental. In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker, the author shows how living in the past affects you psychologically and negatively influences your present and future. Miss Emily refuses to accept the deaths of her father and sweetheart, which leads to her living an empty and isolated life.
Miss Emily Grierson, the title character in "A Rose for Emily", is a very peculiar character …show more content…
Considered a Northern laborer, Barron likes men and is "not a marrying man" (4). Being the daughter of a Southern aristocrat, Miss Emily, on the other hand, is seen as "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (1). When the people of the town first begin to see Barron and Miss Emily together on Sunday afternoons, they do not accept the relationship between them, as the story suggests when "some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people" (4). With a desire to keep love at all costs, Miss Emily is willing to do anything to be with Barron for the rest of her life, so she murders him using arsenic. She keeps his corpse in an attic bedroom and sleeps next to his deceased body for over forty years, which is revealed after her death. Faulkner indicates this by saying, "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head... we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair" …show more content…
Change is inevitable, but wanting to go back in the past is a very common feeling, especially for new students at a school. Having to leave old friends behind and moving to a new school can be hard. It only took the new girl in my seventh grade class three days before she broke down in tears. Fortunately, she was alone in the school bathroom and no one saw her. I should know because I was that girl and those were my tears. I felt like an outsider with nobody to talk to, and I desperately wanted to go back to the old days at my previous school, when I had all of my close friends and favorite teachers. Thankfully, I chose not live in the past like Miss Emily, and all those negative feelings departed. I made new friends and grew to love my teachers. Change is not something we can run away from. Whether it is something serious or something seemingly small as moving to a new school, it is always good to accept change and make the best of it because dwelling in the past will not help in any type of situation.
"A Rose for Emily" shows how living in the past is a problem because it robs you of the opportunity to revel in the present. Faulkner illustrates that perceiving change is essential in everyone's life through the story of Miss Emily Grierson, whose resistance to change cost her a healthy and social life. It is true that many things can be attained from being consumed in the past, but
Miss Emily Grierson, the title character in "A Rose for Emily", is a very peculiar character …show more content…
Considered a Northern laborer, Barron likes men and is "not a marrying man" (4). Being the daughter of a Southern aristocrat, Miss Emily, on the other hand, is seen as "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (1). When the people of the town first begin to see Barron and Miss Emily together on Sunday afternoons, they do not accept the relationship between them, as the story suggests when "some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people" (4). With a desire to keep love at all costs, Miss Emily is willing to do anything to be with Barron for the rest of her life, so she murders him using arsenic. She keeps his corpse in an attic bedroom and sleeps next to his deceased body for over forty years, which is revealed after her death. Faulkner indicates this by saying, "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head... we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair" …show more content…
Change is inevitable, but wanting to go back in the past is a very common feeling, especially for new students at a school. Having to leave old friends behind and moving to a new school can be hard. It only took the new girl in my seventh grade class three days before she broke down in tears. Fortunately, she was alone in the school bathroom and no one saw her. I should know because I was that girl and those were my tears. I felt like an outsider with nobody to talk to, and I desperately wanted to go back to the old days at my previous school, when I had all of my close friends and favorite teachers. Thankfully, I chose not live in the past like Miss Emily, and all those negative feelings departed. I made new friends and grew to love my teachers. Change is not something we can run away from. Whether it is something serious or something seemingly small as moving to a new school, it is always good to accept change and make the best of it because dwelling in the past will not help in any type of situation.
"A Rose for Emily" shows how living in the past is a problem because it robs you of the opportunity to revel in the present. Faulkner illustrates that perceiving change is essential in everyone's life through the story of Miss Emily Grierson, whose resistance to change cost her a healthy and social life. It is true that many things can be attained from being consumed in the past, but