William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” describes the journey through the life of a civil war hero’s daughter. Over the course of her life, Emily Grierson unsuccessfully seeks love from everyone around her. Like a rose, Emily’s life is pruned and nurtured by her father, Homer, and town.
As far as Emily’s personal life is concerned, she has none—thanks to her father. Emily’s peak of womanhood is scarred by “all the young men her father had driven away…” (Faulkner 365). Like a gardener, her father tries to pick all of the “weeds” from her life. However, he only creates thorns in Emily’s life. After his death, he still haunts Emily by making her reluctant to bury him f
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