The Anguish of Miss Emily Grierson
The anguish of a southern lady who lives a strange and unhappy life was written by William Faulkner in a short story entitled “A Rose for Emily”. Faulkner sets the story during the 1930’s with the death of Miss Emily Grierson, who is the protagonist, in a small southern town named Jefferson. Miss Emily represented a time in history for Jefferson where a woman’s appearance was perceived as a direct reflection of their husband or father. The Grierson’s were of southern culture and high social standing in Jefferson, to the point where they felt they were superior, and did not have to follow the rules such as paying their taxes. The townspeople now refer to her as a “Fallen Monument” (28), for she is the southern lady with values that has succumbed to death and putrefaction. Miss Emily’s anguish began with the death of her father. (The man who had dr
This incident shows her insanity because the Colonel has been dead almost ten years now. Just as Miss Emily refused to acknowledge the death of her father by keeping his body in the house with her until the town’s people “were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and buried her father quickly” (31), she is now refusing to accept the death of Colonel Sartoris. The town’s people pity Miss Emily because they know she is not in her right mind. Now that she is being courted by “Homer Barron – a Yankee” (31), they seem pleased and shocked. “Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer” (31) at that. It seems as though Miss Emily has found a man she wants to be with forever. But Homer Barron is not the marrying type. He is more of a man’s man. So in her twisted mind, the only way she can insure that he will be with her forever is to murder him and keep his body wi
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