According to Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, "'A Rose for Emily' is a story of horror. We have a decaying mansion in which the protagonist, shut away from the world, grows into something monstrous, and becomes as divorced from the human as some fungus gro

In conclusion, this essay is a basic overview of three different critical commentaries for William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." The first critic wrote an interpretaion of "A Rose for Emily" as a tragic struggle between an individual and the society that attempts to restrict her. The second critic writes an interpretaion of "A Rose for Emily" as an allegory of past and present time. Finally, the third critic explains why he feels the narrator is female.

wing in the dark on a damp wall. Miss Emily Grierson remains in voluntary isolation away from the bustle and dust and sunshine of the human world of normal affairs, and what in the end is found in the upstairs room gives perhaps a sense of penetrating and gruesome horror" (Brooks and Warren 158). Miss Emily is one of those persons for whom the distinction between reality and illusion has blurred (Brooks and Warren 158). Brooks and Warren also add, "Miss Emily is obviously a pathological case. The narrator indicates plainly enough that people felt she was crazy. All of this explanation prepares us for what Miss Emily does in order to hold her lover - the dead lover is in one sense still alive for her - the realms of

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