A Rose for Emily
Upon reading Faulkner’s Miss Emily, one feels a sense of despair for the poor woman who died alone and friendless. Further reading shows that her friendlessness could very well be her own fault or perhaps caused by something that she could not control. If we look behind the words that Faulkner gave us, can we find another version of Miss Emily that what is painted in his black and white words? A second reading can leave one feeling aggravated with Faulkner for his lack of further details about Miss Emily’s life. We see a picture, yet the picture seems to have sat in the sun for too long and developed spots that we cannot tell what they truly are.
Faulkner’s Miss Emily was a woman who had grown up in true Southern fashion …show more content…
I tend to agree with the mental health issue, possibly augmented by a physical health issue. These two together would explain her behavior and her appearance that was presented to us. Being completely antisocial and not wanting her father; even though he was dead; to leave her and looking for another male companion to take care of; even after he died certainly indicates that she might have had a type of attachment disorder. Her appearance with the bloating and her features the way they were could have been indicative of a disorder that would have affected her mental status including her reasoning ability to see that times had changed and others had died. While Miss Emily was not painted as your typical sweet southern woman type of character, she was definitely a character nonetheless.
After reading “A Rose for Emily” several times over, the primary conclusion is that she was definitely affected mentally in some way but events of her life. What exactly these events were; we, the readers, will never know. We will only know that Miss Emily lived as she did and was certainly an anomaly in her town and there were definitely those who were not sorrowful to see her finally reach her
Upon reading Faulkner’s Miss Emily, one feels a sense of despair for the poor woman who died alone and friendless. Further reading shows that her friendlessness could very well be her own fault or perhaps caused by something that she could not control. If we look behind the words that Faulkner gave us, can we find another version of Miss Emily that what is painted in his black and white words? A second reading can leave one feeling aggravated with Faulkner for his lack of further details about Miss Emily’s life. We see a picture, yet the picture seems to have sat in the sun for too long and developed spots that we cannot tell what they truly are.
Faulkner’s Miss Emily was a woman who had grown up in true Southern fashion …show more content…
I tend to agree with the mental health issue, possibly augmented by a physical health issue. These two together would explain her behavior and her appearance that was presented to us. Being completely antisocial and not wanting her father; even though he was dead; to leave her and looking for another male companion to take care of; even after he died certainly indicates that she might have had a type of attachment disorder. Her appearance with the bloating and her features the way they were could have been indicative of a disorder that would have affected her mental status including her reasoning ability to see that times had changed and others had died. While Miss Emily was not painted as your typical sweet southern woman type of character, she was definitely a character nonetheless.
After reading “A Rose for Emily” several times over, the primary conclusion is that she was definitely affected mentally in some way but events of her life. What exactly these events were; we, the readers, will never know. We will only know that Miss Emily lived as she did and was certainly an anomaly in her town and there were definitely those who were not sorrowful to see her finally reach her