What Does Hair Symbolize In A Rose For Emily

“A Rose for Emily” was written in 1931 by William Faulkner. The story is about a woman named Emily Grierson, a woman who lived in the South and was deeply admired by the community, but it starts off as her funeral. The townspeople placed her on a pedestal and viewed her as “a tradition, a duty” because of her father’s standing in the community before he died. The town feels the need to protect, and watch out for Emily the way they would anybody else but she prevents people from getting “too close” to her. The townspeople bear responsibility for what became of Emily because of their absence to acknowledge the Southern compassion she deserved from her father’s death and the negligence of enforcing the laws because of who she was.
Miss Emily was described as “a fallen monument”, whenever someone close to her left people hardly ever saw her. Her hair was symbolism of her moods and emotions. When her father died she cut her hair and when her sweetheart left her it turned into a vigorous iron gray. Emil’s father forbidden her to date socially, or at least the townspeople thinks so. She becomes desperate for human love that once she found out that Hommer, her sweetheart, was not a marrying man she murders him and clings

Once her father died she went out very little and she did not accept the fact that he had died until 3 days after. In a way, the townspeople were glad because they could pity her, she was left alone and finally humanized. The Grierson’s were believed to hold themselves a little too high for what they really were, so because of her father’s death Colonel Sartoris remitted her taxes. When the next generation came along the arrangement created a little dissatisfaction, so they mailed Emily a tax notice trying to get her to pay her taxes. She was not a woman who acknowledged any authority and did not accept and societal changes in her