Emily Grierson Recovery

Sometimes in life we find ourselves searching to replace or relive those moments or people that have played integral parts of our lives. These moments, for whatever reason, have a hold on us. They’ve left a yearning deep within us that won’t be quenched until we experience something or someone that feels just as good. However, the sad truth is that sometimes we waste our whole lives searching for that thing that probably will never be again and miss the preciousness of every moment thereafter.
In many ways art imitates life. With each stroke of the painter’s brush or author’s pen, the art takes life based upon its relationship to our reality. Just as landscape portraits mirror the natural world, some stories mirror our natural lives. Over …show more content…
In this story, Faulkner paints the picture of a lady who is stuck in a time and place that no longer exist in the real world around her. He shows her acting in ways, that to others are very strange, in order to hold on to what was in her life rather than pick up and move on with life. Faulkner shows how the world around Ms. Emily Grierson had changed by describing the neighborhood around her had changed over the years. He also tells of her strange ways to cope with these changes. When Emily’s father died, she refused his body to be turned over for burial. She keeps her father’s body in their home for three days. He also tells of Emily’s way to cope with the loss of relationship. Emily had for years dated a man by the name of Homer Barron. This relationship, like life with her father, was a safe place for her and a happy time in her life. However, after the relationship failed, Homer was last seen alive entering her house on evening. Later, we find that Emily had killed him and kept his body. She had dressed him for marriage, the thing she really wanted from Homer, and been sleeping with his body. Through this story we are shown Emily’s constant struggle but ultimate inability to recover what has been loss in her