The Rose of Suffer A “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner introduces the reader with a woman named Emily Grierson, who has had a tough life throughout her time that she spent with her father. She faced the mental abuse with her fathers authoritarian personality as she was controlled by his acts which led her to being empty after his death. The outcome of her not enjoying her life due to her fathers whip hand concludes in Emily’s incapability to confront with society to start an ordinary life and suffers from a lot of social restrictions. Faulkner begins by presenting the story of Emily Grierson, one of the towns legends who kept her life in silence after her fathers death approached hers. She wouldn’t accept the fact that her father had passed and denied his death by not letting go of his dead body for three days. This act can already tell the reader that she could have psychological problems but it was pushed off by the neighbors who believed she was just hurt. She refuses to move on from this death and also refuses to recognize the Colonel Sartoris death after they agreed that she does not owe taxes. Miss Emily was no required to pay property taxes due to the fact of past favors that her father had done for the town. Faulkner reveals how …show more content…
Instead she buys arsenic poison and Faulkner makes the reader believe that she killed Mr. Barron with it. She then continues to live her isolated life from society behind closed doors and then we learned that she has passed away at age seventy-four. At this point is where the people go into her house and find out that she has kept Mr. Barron’s rotting corpse in bed with her. These three characters performed a very important role in Emily’s life that she still holds on to them in some type of way after their deaths. She is denial her whole life and went to the grave with her dirty little