The unknown narrator captures ever single important detail of Emily's life as if he was her secret admirer. Years past and he continues to know what is occurring in her life. I Realized that the narrator is a male character when he stated " So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly(630). Throughout the story, he explains the negative comments from the townspeople. Your brought into the scenery of her life behind the view of others. He describes the poor lifestyle she was given by the pressure of her father , society and tradition. " Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less"(630). Emily was viewed as a untouchable and picky high class female during her father existence. When her father was alive , he didn’t want her to be happy and start a family " We remembered all the young men her father had driven away"( 610). …show more content…
She fell into the pressure of tradition and custom. Townspeople during that 1870's, criticized her for not getting married and starting a family. I learned throughout the story that no matter what you do. You cant please people around you and they’ll always judge and have jealousy upon their hearts. Society around her was the main cause for her own destruction. When Emily fell in love for the first time, she couldn’t handle the lost of losing the person she loved . Perhaps leading her to poisoning her boyfriend Byron. The gross part of it all is that she slept with a dead body for years. This character in my opinion suffers through mental problems and a trauma of being left alone and losing people around