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'None Of The Young Men Were Quite Good Enough For Miss Emily'

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At a young age, Miss Emily had a great quantity of pretendants, but her father though that none of those man were sufficient for his only daughter, or that is what the narrator let us know. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily […]” (Faulkner, 4); this quote real meaning is that because of his overprotection she would not get married during her young years and by consequence would not form a family, this being analyzed from the perspective of the time the story was written. It is for this reason that she was dependent of her father and all that he possessed that she did not worked at all. Although it is mentioned that on her last years she gave china-paint lessons, it is not mentioned if she did it for money or for
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