Emily Grierson Mentality

According to Faulkner, “After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all” (805). Occurrences such as these are private instances that took place within Miss Emily’s life. They are very important instances that undoubtedly caused Miss Emily to shift to an isolated lifestyle. On the other hand, actions displayed by the townspeople provide a viewpoint of Miss Emily’s relationship with the public. “Arguably, the townspeople’s actions serve to protect Miss Emily’s privacy- by preserving her perceived gentility-as much as they effectively destroy it with their intrusive zeal” (Crystal 792). The actions of the townspeople fuel Miss Emily’s desire to remain isolated from everyone else in her

Miss Emily?s father used to chase away all of her boyfriends or men she had feelings for. She became adapted to this life of only having her father and when he dies then she feels alone and doesn?t want to ever be alone again and she has not the knowledge to maintain her own boyfriend or husband. So she decides to kill her current crush and she keeps him in a locked room until the day she dies.

We are able to find some possible answers in the writing A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. The composition includes five parts that tell us short episodes about Emily Grierson’s life and if we can read between the lines, perhaps we get answers and explanations, how could the outside facts, like her father’s influence, manipulate the decisions, ideology and the life of a people. This essay will explain the role of Mr. Grierson in her daughter, Emily’s life.

When one thinks about the Old South, often what comes to their mind is images of Confederate Generals and their families standing in front of their beautiful, elegant mansions on the most exclusive street in town. The fathers of these families were usually very wealthy, well known Generals in the Confederate Army, while the children and wives were the most privileged women in town attending the finest china painting classes the South had to offer. This image of an Old Southern family is one that Miss Emily Grierson was once a part of. After Miss Emily’s father passed away when she was thirty years old, she had no one. While the town around her was prospering and transitioning into the “New South”, she stayed locked up inside her once marvelous mansion. The members of the new Southern society do not know what to think about Miss Emily, considering she holds such different values. They all look at her as a piece of history, being she comes from an older age and came from a very prominent family. As the story goes on, the people in her town are

Emily is a woman who goes against all norms of her society: she takes a lover, a Northerner no less, she does not marry him, and she even commits murder. As she goes through these events in her life, the townspeople make certain assumptions about what she is doing. They assume that she has married Homer Barron, they assume that the arsenic she purchased is so that she can kill herself, and they constantly assume that she is “Poor Emily,” a woman who is ruled by her father and unable to make decisions for herself.

Plus, in the addition of desertion from her sweetheart, all the more pity was given to her. Constantly, in hushed tones, it was uttered, “Poor Emily” (59). The folks in Jefferson, in a way, were conflicted internally about how they should feel about Emily Grierson. A part of them wanted to honor and respect her because of her last name, but another part of them had the “she deserves what she gets” mentality. However, they all just came to pity her. The town people pitied Emily because she was lonely, and didn’t have what a high and mighty Grierson

At first, when I read this story it was a little difficult to read and understand. Because it jumps around in terms of chronology so it's not a linear and not easy to follow in terms of its timeline. However, the narrative structure is very important to understand the character of Emily Grierson because she remains kind of stuck in time. So this is one of the characteristics or key features of the character will be the fact that she doesn't really understand and allow time to the past. She remains kind of stuck in an older traditional way of the old South while the rest of society keep moving forward. Basically, she becomes a sort of representation, almost the symbol of the traditional old Southern ways. Interesting that the townsmen

However, there were several events in her life that made their relationship harder. The primary reason is the visit of her two distant cousins from another state and Homer temporary leaving Emily to give her the chance to get rid of them. Emily’s father never left her alone and when he died Homer Barron was a treat that she was never allowed to have. He later died and left her and she was completely alone after that. Miss Emily cannot accept the fact that times are changing and society is growing. Emilys relationship with Homer was highly impacted by her father, all the resistance taken upon her and all the imprisonment, strict, dictation had taken a toll on Emily and she had killed Homer for the reason being so that she can be with him forever. She refuses to let go. The murder was intentional because she had purposely gone to the store to purchase arsenic. She held herself above the law because she did not really feel that she needed to give a reason for wanting the poison. Miss Emily, in her own mind, probably felt that she had the right to do what she was doing. After all, she was the proud daughter of the

Emily was to the age where she wanted to have a partner and was tired of living life alone, but with the loss of her father and the abandonment of her true love, Miss Emily could not bare to lose anyone else

Miss Emily’s early years were controlled by her domineering father. He rejects any man that she brings home. Mr. Grierson does not judge the men for the fact that they are not quality suitors for Miss Emily, but he simply disapproves of them because he does not want to lose his control of her if she were to marry. His control over Miss Emily results in her delusional state once he passes away. Three days after his death, she refuses to let his body be removed from the home.

Miss Emily’s lack of grief as she pretends her father never died, and her choice to go after a northerner after her father’s death shows how being alone leads to Miss Emily’s odd

Faulkner then continues to build shape our opinion of Emily through the metaphorical comparison of her with a “Fallen Monument.” Such a comparison unsurprisingly leads the reader to think of Miss Emily as some sort of tarnished noble, or

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 was isolated from others by her father from the beginning of the story. Her father was very controlling and didn’t think that any man was good enough to marry her. In the story, it is said: “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away-” (28). This caused Emily to be isolated from others because she couldn’t find a man who her father thought was suitable for marriage. The town had grown to believe that Emily thought she was better than others because that is the way her family thought “-we believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (25). This automatically caused the town to be more distant from Emily and her to only have one person to depend on which began to affect her mental health because she felt as she only had her father.

Miss Emily was a complex character shaped by the social environment at that period. On one hand, she was a representative of the southern aristocracy. She acted in the townspeople's expectation as being the last Grierson. On the other hand, she was a woman hoping for love and a normal family, which she couldn't have throughout her life. She became a trouble woman and