Character Analysis: A Rose For Emily

The story is about a spinster: Miss Emily, who is described as an undefeated maiden, she was motherless and was raised by a restricted father who did not allow her to communicate with other men. When her father died, she tried to keep his corpse at home, which later in the story, produced some bad smell, therefore leading the town government to investigate her house. Later in the story, she met and dated a worker from the North, who afterward disappeared. During their acquaintance, the town started talking about Homers and Emily's relationship, because Homer was from North and was not suitable for a lady from South. After her death, the town discovered that all that time she had been living with the corpse of her suitor, Homer Barron, who...show more content...

It was still a very important matter for the townsfolk, that Emily's father had cruelly interfered in Emily's happiness, and even the town' people additionally isolated her out of concern and disgust. Everybody pitied Emily, even though, that was lots completely different than the way they could charm her. Maybe the last scene was a verification of her last saying about life.

And while reading "A Rose for Emily" we are confronted by as a morbid crime story, or a tragic story of a couple of bitter spinster, on second thought it can be seen as a story of girl who had the domination over the folks in her society and feeling entitled to her ascendance, she doesn't hesitate to impose her abnormal ways on them. Emily defied and revolted against the Southern patriarchy with its sexism and racial differentiation.

‟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.

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The character Emily Rose in "A Rose for Emily" is considered a static character because; her traits throughout the story do not change. In the story she is deemed as quiet, inhuman and, even mad. However, through further inspection; there are characteristics displayed throughout the story that can possibly prove that Emily was a dynamic character. Throughout the piece Emily changes both mentally, socially and physically. Miss Emily, the main character of this story, lives for many years as a recluse; she withdraws from her community to live in seclusion. "No visitor had passed since she ceased giving china–painting lessons eight or ten years earlier."(pg.31) Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily's attempt to remove herself from society...show more content...

A reader of thisshort story would never have thought of Emily as being a killer; but, her desire for love and companionship drove her to murder Homer Baron.

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

Not wanting to deal with and accept change seems to be the message that author William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is trying to convey. Emily Grierson is the main character in this story, the people of her town feel sorry for her after her father dies. She becomes a loner and does not leave her house. Emily was controlled by her father. He rejected suitors that were interested in marrying her. Now she is all alone, until a new person comes to town. Homer Barron comes to work in the town. Emily is very interested in him, but he does not return the feelings. Emily buys everything that would make it look like they are getting married. The townspeople are wondering if he will marry her. There is talk in the town that...show more content...

This is Miss Emily's craziest try at keeping her life the way it was before her father died. The death of her father was so traumatic for her that she never wanted to lose anything. This story takes place in the South, when there is racial discrimination. The South was very prejudice. "They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow" (Faulkner, A Rose for Emily). This use of the offensive word "negro" shows that Mr. Faulkner was trying to show what the life of anAfrican Americanwas during this time. They were just property and by using these words to talk about them, they had no identity. "In 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor –he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron–remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity" (Faulkner, A Rose for Emily). African Americans were seen as nothing more than workers. They could not socialize with white people, they were just there to serve them.

Mr. Faulkner explains the roles of women in the South and how they were seen through the eyes of men. "When Miss Emily Grierson died the whole town went to her funeral: the men out of respectful affection for a fallen monument and the women mostly out

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