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A Rose for Emily character
A character that reminds me of a friend Anna is Emily in one of the short stories I read “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. Miss Emily is the protagonist of the story, is the town matriarch. She is apparently a spinster because of her father’s insistence that “none of the young men were good enough” for her.
When her father passed away, she found it difficult to cope and couldn’t come to terms with his death. She finally breaks down after three days and allows the townspeople to remove his body. A while after his death, Miss Emily met and fell in love with a Northerner Homer Barron a relationship disapproved of by the townspeople. After been through a psychological torment before her father’s death, she then became criticized for her every action by the townspeople. She really couldn’t turn to anyone, because she felt no one could understand. Apparently, Emily’s father left her with nothing when he died. Colonel Sartoris invented a story explaining the remittance of Emily’s taxes (the town’s method of paying back a loan to her father) to save her from the embarrassment of accepting charity. The fact that Emily was tax exempted is an example of the authority she possesses over the townsfolk even though she was distant from them. The townspeople believed that she was a crazy woman due to the fact that she never socialized with anyone in the community, including her servant. She kept her distance from the people to distance herself from them. Eventually she never left her house after she killed Homer Barron , a man she fell in love with and wanted to keep forever. After her death the townspeople discovered his remains on a bed in a room that remain closed for a long time.
Her story reminds me of my friend Anna, who lived a restricted life because her parents tried to do what’s best for her. Only a few of her female friends were allowed to visit her when we were growing up. She couldn’t relate with any males because her parents did not approve. At the time we

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