A Rose For Emily Grierson Character Analysis Essay
Nicholas Manzy
Character Analysis In this essay I will be talking about the character Emily Grierson from the story “A Rose for Emily”. A Southern Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. This story was Faulkner 's first short story to be published in a national magazine. Taking place in Mississippi in the fictional country of Yoknapatawpha County, this tale tells the story of an elderly Southern spinster life and her relationship with a town of people up until her death. The main theme of the story revolves around the fact that this women refusing to change and cope with the changes around her.
Due to her father refusing to allow anyone to marry her, she misses every chance at being married. Becoming desperate, she settles …show more content…
. .”(1). I believe that this sentence at the beginning of the third paragraph is the best to describe Emily and the town 's feeling about her in this story. Being born into a powerful and wealthy southern family, she was proud and eccentric woman. She believed that she was too good for the young men and she also had her father preventing them from getting close to her. When she grew to the age of thirty the town believe that she couldn’t possible turn down all of her chances at marriage if they materialized …show more content…
“It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson: as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness”(1). A while later a construction company came in to work on the town and with them came Homer Barron. After being seen with Homer, the people of the town assumed that Miss Emily would marry him. But soon they found out that Homer had no plans to become a married man. Later on she decides to buy some poison and at this point we see that Emily cares little for the law by refusing to state why she needed the poison. But this was not the case as she lived many years
Character Analysis In this essay I will be talking about the character Emily Grierson from the story “A Rose for Emily”. A Southern Gothic short story written by William Faulkner. This story was Faulkner 's first short story to be published in a national magazine. Taking place in Mississippi in the fictional country of Yoknapatawpha County, this tale tells the story of an elderly Southern spinster life and her relationship with a town of people up until her death. The main theme of the story revolves around the fact that this women refusing to change and cope with the changes around her.
Due to her father refusing to allow anyone to marry her, she misses every chance at being married. Becoming desperate, she settles …show more content…
. .”(1). I believe that this sentence at the beginning of the third paragraph is the best to describe Emily and the town 's feeling about her in this story. Being born into a powerful and wealthy southern family, she was proud and eccentric woman. She believed that she was too good for the young men and she also had her father preventing them from getting close to her. When she grew to the age of thirty the town believe that she couldn’t possible turn down all of her chances at marriage if they materialized …show more content…
“It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson: as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness”(1). A while later a construction company came in to work on the town and with them came Homer Barron. After being seen with Homer, the people of the town assumed that Miss Emily would marry him. But soon they found out that Homer had no plans to become a married man. Later on she decides to buy some poison and at this point we see that Emily cares little for the law by refusing to state why she needed the poison. But this was not the case as she lived many years