Essay On Miss Emily In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

Who is Miss Emily? In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, Miss Emily was a classic outsider who controlled and limited the town to access her true identity and she did this by remaining hidden and away from everyone. She was a very muted and mysterious person. Emily lived a very hard life being under control of her father until his death. The townspeople of Jefferson were also people who kept their eyes out for her as well. Emily was the type of person who was set in her ways and she did not want to listen to what others had to say. If Emily was raised in a different type of environment where her parents loved, adored and cared for her, her life would have been much different than it turned out to be. When reading the story “A Rose for Emily,” you begin to feel sorry for her because of the type of life she lived. Emily was kept away from male callers because her father didn’t want her to have any, she is also kept away from the towns people. Emily’s father was a very dominant and controlling type of man who could make you feel like he was very brutal, even toward his own daughter.
The bed that Homer was found in there was a single grey hair on the pillow that was next to his body. No one will ever know if it was one of Emily’s grey hairs. However, with the mental state that the narrator plays Emily to have it very well can be hers. This was Emily's way of keeping Homer form ever leaving her again, he was hers for life. After her death, her only family she had left was notified. Her cousins came to town and started to go through the house that was such a mystery. They found that Emily left a legacy, a legacy of what she was, human. She only wanted to be loved and in her own warped and twisted mind she felt that she had that with Homer even if he was