Characterization In Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

In the story “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner uses characterization to portray Emily’s mental decline throughout her life. By being kept away from the real world by her father, to being free to venture out after his death to having to keep a murder a secret. Faulkner best characterized Miss Emily as snobby, crazy and secretive. Emily is kept away from outside society early in her life because her dad believes no one was good enough for her. As Faulkner stated on (page.311) “people in our town believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for they really were.” Her isolation from everyone causes her to become later on in the story. Which explains her not even asking the tax people do they want to sit down, or her “I can’t believe