A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner was written in the year 1929 and describes the life of an ostracized woman. The narrator first shows Emily Grierson as elegance, grace, and a southern belle, and then as the story progresses is shown as a martyr of the past. Multiple times throughout the story we are shown how she continues to live by the old ways: no taxes and not putting an actual federal address on her house. It is described that Emily lived under the control of her rather strict father, whom turned away every suitor who came to ask for her. This lead to her being 30 and unwed, leading the town to pity her. This is the turning point in the story that we see her become a shut in. She starts seeing a man called Homer, and there are whispers
