Emily In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner keeps his readers guessing as to what exactly is going on with Emily. Emily’s behavior leaves readers wondering if she was insane or was she a woman that could not deal with being alone. Emily’s actions and behavior keep the townspeople puzzled, worried, and have pity for her. It becomes a question of is Emily truly insane or is she a result of the treatment that she received by her community. Emily’s life was quite unusual from the perspective of the townspeople. The townspeople gives their view on what they saw of the life of Emily through different generations. For most of her early adulthood Emily was a single woman. Emily’s downhill life had been blamed on her father for his overprotection. Her father did not believe that there was a man that was good enough for his daughter, scaring off potential relationships. He did not allow her to have much of a life, so in return he was her life. …show more content…
The townspeople disapprove of the relationships and calls in her cousins to talk her out of the relationship. The attempt to break up the relationship was a fail. At one point Emily goes out and buys men’s clothing and other items; the town thinks that the couple is going to get married. Then Emily decides to buy arsenic and it was given to her without her giving any reasons on why she needed it. The town felt bad for Emily and assumed that she was going to kill herself. Her lover returns to her home and is never seen again. After thirty years go by Emily dies in her home. The townspeople could not wait to bury her so they could go snoop around her house. Once they enter Emily’s home they go to the room that they know has been locked up for quite some time. Once they enter the room they noticed that the room was set up like a bridal suite. Also in the room was Homer Barron, and beside him was an indentation of a head and a long gray