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"Miss Emily Grierson in A Rose for Emily
Her traditional house and living (Team), portrayed solitude.
This showed that how she was living in her solitude and she had no other option then to stay in this house forever and alone. She though opted to live with a decent man, but she became afraid of him leaving her and her fear of solitude made her kill the person she loved. The old furniture that she kept also makes the reader to depict that she was not at all interested in the trends of the society as she had no one. • Her stubborn isolation made her last 10 years of life more miserable.
Living alone in a house had made her to be stubborn for anything she wanted to have. She made her living through teaching arts which showed that she is taking her wills and wants out to survive. She was a single child though and after her father’s death, her life was a miserable one (Hoowe). • The repetitively used phrase “poor Emily”.
The author has used the words poor Emily so many times so that the reader may themselves be convinced that she was someone who must be taken care of. Her death and the last scene, where people actually saw the home of poor Emily, also make the reader to perceive that they should be sorry for what happened to the character (Team). • The sympathies of the society for a tyrant
Until the mystery of the murder of Homer is revealed, the society felt sorry for the lonely lady who was not even married to someone. For them, the women was always alone with her own self, and was left alone by life, once when her father died, and second when her lover went

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