When reading William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily,” most readers will determine that Miss Emily Grierson has a problem facing reality. Her overbearing father, who is proud of his southern heritage and status in his community, keeps her suppressed, and enslaved in her own home. She is never allowed to grow and become the woman she wants to be, there is a wonderful woman that is inside of her but is never allotted to rise into full bloom. Her father stands between her and any young man who wishes to date her. This causes devastating effects to her character and spirit. Never being able to express her feelings in a natural way, she begins to withdraw inside herself and become dependant upon her father. This is evident in the story when Faulkner writes, “…Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her clutching a horsewhip, the two of framed by the back-flung front door”(105). He
They are miss- matched from the beginning. Miss Emily Grierson from a prominent background of the south and Homer Barron, a Yankee from the North, and a man who works a laborer. Homer Barron was not the marrying kind, “Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks’ Club…” (Faulkner, 106). In the beginning everyone thought it was acceptable until they found that it was getting serious, then the townsfolk looked down upon their actions.
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