Emily Change In Her Perspective

Emily was kept confined from all that surrounded her. Her father had given the town folks a large amount of money which caused Emily and her father to feel superior to others. “Grierson’s held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (Faulkner). Emily’s attitude had developed as a stuck-up and stubborn girl and her father was to blame for this attitude. Emily was a normal

Emily's father suppressed all of her inner desires. He kept her down to the point that she was not allowed to grow and change with the things around her. When “garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated…only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps” (Rose 217). Even when he died, she was still unable to get accustom to the changes around her. The traditions that her and her father continued to participate in even when others stopped, were also a way that her father kept her under his thumb. The people of the town helped in

The very beinning of the story is extraordinary. It begins with the burial of Emily, the residents around her coffin did not feel anything, most of them were curious. There were neither friends nor relatives, nobody who was in mouring for her, only inquirers. The readers can ask, what kind of person was Miss Emily? Why the others did not feel sadness? Perhaps there is a bigger question: what was the reason that nobody went to her house more than ten years (except her slave, Tobe).

Initially after the loss of her father Emily Grierson refuses to let go of him and the influence he has over her in “A Rose for Emily”. Emily’s father was a big part of her existence he was the only man in her life. For years he had ran off suitor that had called upon Emily. Once he was gone it is hard for her to adapt to life without him. She refuses to believe that he is dead telling the ladies of the town “that her father was not dead” (101). She had been very close to her father and without him her live would not be the same. She never leaves the house she stays secluded from the town. By remaining alone she will not have to face the fact that any change has taken place.

This reality sends panic and fear through her because now she has nowhere to turn and no one to tell her what to do, no one to command her life. Not only is she stricken with the loss of her father but now she is cut off to the outside world, because her only link has passed on. Emily immediately goes into a state of denial; to her, her father could not be dead, he was all that she had and she would not let him go.

She fears to lose her love one. She also stops teaching color painting classes so kids do not come to her house. Because of Emily’s reserve nature, people of the town also think that he has now gone mad. Generations after generations, people of town has look at Emily as a responsibility of town. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty; and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation

Through the townspeople, it is revealed that Emily’s father, Mr. Grierson, controls every aspect of her life as a young woman. He guards Emily like a dog from suitors, cooping her up at home as a way to preserve her from the outside world. Mr. Grierson is Emily’s only close point of contact in her early life, and it is his possessive behaviour and refusal to let her interact with others that serves as the root of Emily’s social maladjustment. The townspeople recognize the oddness of this relationship, thinking “of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background… her [father’s] back to her and clutching a horse whip” (Discovering Literature, p.143). While Emily is seen as small and helpless, her

Additionally, because of Miss Emily Grierson isolation from the community by her totalitarian of a father and as a result, she is basically disconnected from the society, in which she is supposed to have been in contact with or socially connected. Moreover, the result of her father’s death causes Miss Emily to refuse to acknowledge his death for three days. However, after the townspeople intervene and buried her father, it seems that Miss Emily is isolating herself by an obscure illness, perhaps a mental breakdown, therefore, in order for Miss Emily to keep herself sane, she finds herself remembering only the past, creating her own reality, causing herself and others to follow. Likewise, Miss Emily lives in an abiding void causing her to create

She continually tries to avoid situations that make the ever evolving world seem closer. Although she does not want things to change one way readers can tell that times have changed is by her appearance. While her father is alive and all is well in the world she is described as “a slender figure in white in the background” which shows she is happy, healthy and active (311). Miss Emily is later described after her father dies as “ small, fat women in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt” which shows her lack of activity and motivation as well as her state of grief (309).

Emily’s countless instances of stubbornness lead the townspeople to conclude that she is beyond their help. This negatively impacts Emily as they do not attempt to aid her as she slips into madness. The town members talk of Emily and her life as they describe “the insanity of the family” (137). Because they have seen craziness in Emily’s past, they assume that she is doomed to the same things and that she cannot change because the small amount of time that she has

In the story the narrator is very sympathetic towards Miss Emily Grierson. The narrator refers to Emily as an object or an “idol”. Most people who describe Miss Emily as a fierce, stubborn, lady who has certain stands and never backs down from her perceptions. In this story, they focused on the concept of death. Miss Emily is especially has a fixture with death. In fact essentially she even gives into death. Most people feel bad and sympathetic with Miss Emily because of the lack of love that she gets from her father. Which is probably one of the reasons she becomes obsessed. Miss Emily tries to control her future but she's stuck within the past. Another reason why people feel sympathy is because her father often sheltered her. In the story,

Secondly, Emily Rose changes socially in the story. In the beginning of the piece Emily is described as being a recluse towards the townspeople. (pg. 32). Emily's father did not like loneliness; therefore he kept her beside him until his death. This fear of being alone was transmitted to Emily, who first would try to keep

Mrs. Emily Grierson, is definitely seen as a strange character in any reader’s opinion and a character analysis of Emily would definitely go in countless directions. In the story the reader witnesses Mrs. Emily having a hard time dealing with several of life 's hardships. Emily’s own self-depression, anxiety and her disconnection from the community is what brings most of the events to

‟Emily is a victim because she belongs to another time and a different world that which emerges in her lifetime, and she flatly refuses to give up her internalized ideals and ideas because she has been given nothing in exchange for them. The reader can not and will not condone Emily’s behavior, but at the same time as she is depicted as a product of a certain era and place , of ideas and attitudes and behavior of a bygone age which should have been buried with the veterans in the cemetery of Jefferson but which still is a part of present, although a dead part of a changing world’’. (Skei, p.

During this stage, the townspeople feel as if Emily takes a step forward in her life conforming to the confines of the environment she is brought up around. The townspeople feel they can open their hearts, pity and accept Emily as one of their own. They even comment on their happiness by saying, "Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less." Although Emily appears to become humanized in the eyes of the townspeople, she does not follow through with what they might have expected out of her for the rest of her life.