is why readers are able to form opinions about what they have read. They create a point of view to try and evoke certain feelings so, we can have a better understanding of a character. In “A Rose For Miss Emily” by William Faulkner he expresses the theme of

Individuality. He Created an idea of Individuality through Emily Grierson who becomes

isolated not by choice, but by her father’s demands. Emily’s society look upon her

Faulkner in the beginning of the story uses Miss Emily’s father as dominant

figure over her. Faulkner states that “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such”(2). Emily’s father held her to such high standards that he never

let her date anyone in the town. Emily never gets an opportunity to have a normal life

We had long thought of them as a Tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in

white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground,

his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the

back flung of the door. So when she got to be thirty and was still si

Faulkner states “At last they could pity miss Emily. Being left alone and a pauper, she had become humanized.” The Grierson’s was looked upon by the society as a family that

left was her servant. According to Faulkner “The day after his death (. . .) She told

Emily was a true individual. She did not listen or follow the group However,

are taught. Some are able to break the cycle that they were brought up in, and some

Emily decided to poison Homer using arsenic. She kept him for herself by keeping his decomposing body by her bedside. Miss Emily slept night after night next to his body. While the town saw miss Emily as a lonely old woman she reassure herself with Homer’s body that she was not alone. This was one way that she kept her love by her side. After all the suitors that her father had turned away he could not turn this one away.

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