A Rose For Emily Character Analysis Essay

William Faulkner introduces the confusing story “Rose for Emily” which let everyone guessing, was Miss Emily guilty as charged? Miss Emily was definitely guilty for death of Mr. Homer Barron; nevertheless, by analyzing how miss Emily Characterization has been created to reveal meaning when Faulkner elaborates Miss Emily Grierson’s character through the environment she grew up in, what other people surrounding her think about her, and by the way she looked like at the special meeting of the board of Aldermen, in order to express that the lifestyle someone grows up can negatively affect one’s social relationship and psychological behavior
Faulkner started right in the beginning of the story by giving the luxurious description of Grierson’s house in

the interest to indicate that Miss Emily was once living a noble and controlled life:” It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street” so he can build up a relation that growing up stuck inside a picture, and being raised by a controlling father such as Miss Emily’s father can prevent someone to find his/her own ground. Miss Emily’s father was a rich man who has slaves and power in his possession, he never let Miss Emily get out the house and she could not get any excuses to get out since she had everything coming her way just by asking. Miss Emily did not have the opportunity to date anyone while her father was alive so she did not have a clue that dating someone is a choice and the person should be willing to date you but the person also have the right not to. In order to survive, Miss Emily had to keep that picture when she was a kid in her mind so the only way she know how to do stuff is traditionally, since she always get what she want she couldn’t accept things have change. Sometimes you cannot get what you want in life you just have to accept the fact that maybe this has not meant to be for you and move on to the next one.
Faulkner initiates the story with: “When Miss Emily died”, to enforce the idea that the people saw Miss Emily has an unchanging person.

After reading the whole story we realize that Miss Emily was never married. After her father died she keep getting older but the people around her never change the “Miss Emily” because no visible change had been made during that period of time, she always wearing the same dress and no husband. The people living around Miss Emily always have this image of Miss Emily has a kid who never grew up and she is unchanging. They are not wrong Miss Emily did not want to grow up; she did not want to accept all the transition that was going on with the time. Everyone seems to be moving with the time very well, but since Miss Emily did not have his father figure or a man to guide her through the process she was stuck in the tableau she grew up in and she did not know what to do. “Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, a care; sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” Sometimes people have to get over these childhood memories they have and accept the word change cause the world does not stay still, everything is moving therefore in order to keep one’s balance people need to move also with the

time.
Faulkner demonstrate a quick change in the description of Miss Emily “A small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head” to affiliate the look with impurity, death, and negativity. After Miss Emily start to date Homer Baron everything started to go sideways, Baron was not the type of guy to be dated but Miss Emily want him to be the new man of her life. Mr. Baron has been known to be gay and a bachelor type and he clearly did not have any intention to marry Miss Emily, he is the hit it and quit it type. The only way Miss Emily knew to make him the man of her life was to kill him. After the day she killed Mr. Homer Baron death has become a part of her life. Miss Emily was no longer that pure slender child who always wears white. Faulkner wanted to show that the fact Miss Emily has not been taught how to be an independent woman and to do things on her own, when her father dies she think she always going to need a male figure in the picture to guide her.
William Faulkner In his text “A Rose for Emily” wanted to express how Emily has been living is her past and she never catch the opportunity to accept change, and Faulkner throw all the clear example with the Postal basket, the house description she never accept innovation and her lover Mr. Homer Baron who she killed because she needed him to be her new guide. Faulkner want to express that parents need to change their game on how they are raising their kids because sometimes even changes are not in one’s favor those children are going to need to accept it and move on mostly in someone’s love life, sometime you need to know that the other person has the right not to want you; therefore, you have to let it go despite that you used to get anything you want while growing up.