William Faulkner related to his character Emily Grierson because both of them had experienced the same kind of lost. Faulkner said, “Born into an old Mississippi family that had lost its influence and wealth during the Civil War” (Faulkner) William Faulkner was an author from New Albany, Mississippi. He later moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he use an imaginary county called Yoknapatawpha this town was similar to his hometown in which he wrote about in a lot of his stories. One of Faulkner works was called “A Rose for Emily” he used an approach in this story from a psychological perspective. The story begins with the climax, of her death. The narrator of this story is told through the voice of the town. This story is about Emily Grierson
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Miss Emily responded when she was ask by the druggist what kind, “For rats and such” (Faulkner). I think that Miss Emily was referring to Homer as being a rat because she had heard the gossip of what Homer was telling people in town. “He liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks’ Club- that he was not a marrying man” (Faulkner). Emily didn’t like the idea of people knowing about Homer because she felt as though that he was ruining her reputation because she was considered a person of class. Even though she bought the rat poison to kill Homer the people in the town was insinuating that she was going to kill herself with the poison. So this is why she took it upon herself to killing Homer. She wanted to hide this so called secret from the townspeople. That’s why they had to break down the door in order to discover Homer decomposed body, because it was meant to stay a secret. “She killed Homer largely to placate society, although that, in her deranged mind, also secured him as her lover forever” (Dilworth). The final scene in this story suggests she is a necrophiliac.
The end result of this story proves that Miss Emily indeed suffered with some form of mental disorder. I agree with William Faulkner psychology perspective with supporting the story “ A Rose for Emily. Being that these times were dated so long ago people didn’t know if they indeed suffered with ant form of mental illness because mental illness was thought of as a taboo especially among the people that was consider high
Miss Emily responded when she was ask by the druggist what kind, “For rats and such” (Faulkner). I think that Miss Emily was referring to Homer as being a rat because she had heard the gossip of what Homer was telling people in town. “He liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks’ Club- that he was not a marrying man” (Faulkner). Emily didn’t like the idea of people knowing about Homer because she felt as though that he was ruining her reputation because she was considered a person of class. Even though she bought the rat poison to kill Homer the people in the town was insinuating that she was going to kill herself with the poison. So this is why she took it upon herself to killing Homer. She wanted to hide this so called secret from the townspeople. That’s why they had to break down the door in order to discover Homer decomposed body, because it was meant to stay a secret. “She killed Homer largely to placate society, although that, in her deranged mind, also secured him as her lover forever” (Dilworth). The final scene in this story suggests she is a necrophiliac.
The end result of this story proves that Miss Emily indeed suffered with some form of mental disorder. I agree with William Faulkner psychology perspective with supporting the story “ A Rose for Emily. Being that these times were dated so long ago people didn’t know if they indeed suffered with ant form of mental illness because mental illness was thought of as a taboo especially among the people that was consider high