William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a story that looks at the life of an isolated older woman named Emily, whom has continuously fought through loneliness most of her life. Faulkner introduces Emily by comparing her to a historical object with no loved ones. Even after receiving news of her death, people were more interested in the inside of her home rather than show sympathy towards her passing. Emily’s worn down house represented her own character, the last among a neighborhood of abandoned old homes, purposefully displaying her as being alone and unpleasant to look at. The story further describes the reasoning’s behind Emily’s dismay through examples such as her controlling father and lack of compassionate relationships; She had become hardened and quiet towards the word. “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the isolation of a person which reveals how loneliness can negatively affect someone into a state of chronic depression. …show more content…
As a young woman, she was already accustomed to the feelings of loneliness due to the restrictions placed upon her by her father. Ironically, the death of Emily’s oppressive father who rejected every potential gentleman interested in Emily, only further pushes her into isolation. Faulkner acknowledges this in the last line of the second scene where he writes “we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her”. Without her father Emily had lost her foundation on which she had lived and wasn’t seen for some time. The following scene opens by showing a side of Emily that is trying to recreate her now lost childhood by appearing to look younger, only to be described by Faulkner as “tragic and