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How Does Grierson Use Fear In A Rose For Emily

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In “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner uses the mysterious actions of a heartbroken woman to express the danger of what the sum of love and fear is. William expresses how Emily Grierson is fiercely forbidden from love and sociality, how Emily cannot let go of her deceased father, how Emily falls in love with an unusual match, and how Emily looks at death as a permanent Cupid between herself and Homer Barron. William Faulkner tells a story of how love and fear are the most dangerous of human weaknesses.
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Emily Grierson is kept away from love and sociality by her father. Mr.Grierson keeps Emily locked away and runs every man who approaches her away. People began say, ”None of the young men were quite good enough for for Miss Emily and such”(). Mr.Grierson’s audacity influences Emily to believe that she is too good to be friends with anyone. As Emily grows old, and her father is the only other Grierson alive other than herself, she isolates herself from the world.
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Monasteries say, “She told them that her father was not dead, dressed as usual, and with no trace of grief on her face. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body”(). Emily is unable to release herself from her father as her father is the only accompaniment she has. Letting him go is what truly drives her

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