Emily Grierson Tradition Analysis

In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," and/or Jackson’s “The Lottery”, Miss Emily Grierson is a woman who wants to hold or controlled her past traditions. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town... (217). In the story, Miss Emily Grierson tries to keep the “tradition," "duty," and "care,", but the community isn’t agree and creates conflict with her. On the other hand, the community scares to change their traditions even though they aren’t willingly accepts her authority. Miss Emily Grierson exemplifies negative traditions by killing her father's and boyfriend. She kills her father to gain the ownership of the control over man. After her father death, she believes that she …show more content…
The villagers’ blind acceptance of the lottery has allowed ritual murder to become part of their town fabric, but the town people shows the unwillingness to change their traditions. In this town, people were easily killed by someone when they are told to. They don’t have a reason for murdering someone other than the fact that they’ve always held a lottery to kill someone. If the villagers stopped to question it, they would be forced to ask themselves why they are committing a murder—but no one stops to question. In the story “The Lottery”, the town people don’t willing to change their tradition compare to the story “A Rose for Emily.” The society wants to keep their tradition even though it’s dangerous. For instance, “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the village about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represent by the black box” (Jackson 291). The box is very old, nearly falling apart, and need to be change, but the villagers are unwilling to replace the black box since it represents the symbols of their tradition. Also, the lottery represents the tradition that is passed down from one generation to the next that’s accepted and followed