A Rose For Emily
Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily” has many prevailing and interesting themes, including Emily’s insanity, but the most interesting question is the origins of Emily’s insanity. To discover the cause of Emily’s insanity, one must first settle the matter that she was in fact, insane. Though Emily was raised very properly, just like a lady in the Old South, the last decades of her life she showed clear signs of mental illness.
Before one begins to look any farther into Emily’s insanity, a clear understanding of her relationship with her father must be established. According to the townspeople, you could describe the two as tableau, “.., Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip…” (123). This goes to show her father was quite overbearing, warding off all hopeful suitors to Emily and clutching to her as his own. This is was the case for the first 30 …show more content…
Boys liked her and wished to court her, such as the boy in the 1983 film, “A Rose for Emily” directed by Lyndon Chubbuck. He wished to take Emily to dances, or talk with her, and other such things, but Emily’s father would have none of it. This may have been because of the father’s instinct to protect his daughter, or it may have been a selfish desire to have Emily only to himself and to serve his needs, but whatever the motive, the results are the same. Danielle Lensen in her essay on the harmful effects of patriarchal domination says that, “.., men are not aware of the negative effects their "superiority" can have on women: alienation, low self esteem, incompetence, and even insanity.“ With the segregation between Emily and other people, Emily learned only to interact well with her father and Tobe (her manservant), and forgot how to interact properly with other humans outside of her house. This was the first domino leading to Emily becoming
Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily” has many prevailing and interesting themes, including Emily’s insanity, but the most interesting question is the origins of Emily’s insanity. To discover the cause of Emily’s insanity, one must first settle the matter that she was in fact, insane. Though Emily was raised very properly, just like a lady in the Old South, the last decades of her life she showed clear signs of mental illness.
Before one begins to look any farther into Emily’s insanity, a clear understanding of her relationship with her father must be established. According to the townspeople, you could describe the two as tableau, “.., Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip…” (123). This goes to show her father was quite overbearing, warding off all hopeful suitors to Emily and clutching to her as his own. This is was the case for the first 30 …show more content…
Boys liked her and wished to court her, such as the boy in the 1983 film, “A Rose for Emily” directed by Lyndon Chubbuck. He wished to take Emily to dances, or talk with her, and other such things, but Emily’s father would have none of it. This may have been because of the father’s instinct to protect his daughter, or it may have been a selfish desire to have Emily only to himself and to serve his needs, but whatever the motive, the results are the same. Danielle Lensen in her essay on the harmful effects of patriarchal domination says that, “.., men are not aware of the negative effects their "superiority" can have on women: alienation, low self esteem, incompetence, and even insanity.“ With the segregation between Emily and other people, Emily learned only to interact well with her father and Tobe (her manservant), and forgot how to interact properly with other humans outside of her house. This was the first domino leading to Emily becoming