Death In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

A Rose for Emily is a sectionally divided short story about the illness Emily suffered after her Father’s death, the fear of the townspeople that she would kill herself, her resistance to the inquiry of the townspeople thirty years earlier, Emily’s death and the events that follow thereafter. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” strikes the interests of the readers by how it is in accordance with Henry James’ “The Art of Fiction” because of how it reflects life with such a degree of frank realism which is shown in the historical setting of the story and how Emily Grierson’s life was grim and filled with such isolation as time continued to revolve around her while she remains trapped in her past.
A few themes found in the story are decay (Physical, mental, and of one’s person in result of gossip), death and defying death, the desire to belong, the desire to be a part of others’
The same in realism with the story at large are the characters. The characters must also be real that it wouldn’t be questionable to meet the said characters in a busy street or for the events happening to the character also to happen to the readers.
Emily acts as one may act after the blow on inevitable death of a loved one. Having been sheltered by her father, when he died, she lost everything. She had tried to cope. Also, in her struggle, readers are given a chance to glimpse the outsiders of the story. Towns people who merely are gossipers yearning to know of the “what’s” and “where’s.” Emily Grierson appeals to them as something quite peculiar. They take interest in her and overtime, because of Emily’s disregard for the change and signs of the times, She becomes backward, refusing to advance with the town and becomes a monument of