A Rose For Emily Character Analysis

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“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” (Steve Maraboli) In “A Rose for Emily” we find that the townspeople have divergent opinions towards the way Emily lives. They either said good and caring stuff about her or the opposite, and said they did not like the way she did certain things. Emily is visually perceived as a paramount town figure in the town of Jefferson “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Satoris, the mayor-he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman …show more content…

“Tobe!’ The Negro appeared. ‘Show these gentlemen out.’ So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.” Not only did she have a strong personality, she additionally had personality with self-respect and honor. “She carried her head high enough-even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that tough of earthiness to re her imperviousness.” With her strong personality she gave the illusion to some townspeople that she was a mysterious person because she would stay at her house by …show more content…

“That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were.” Not only did the townspeople say that the Griersons held themselves too high for what they really were, but they additionally were glad that the father died and the house as all left to her. “When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At least they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or

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