Rose For Emily

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William Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” William Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” is a wonderful short novel which displays a lot of Freudian Psychoanalysis in reference to the character Emily. Freud always presented his ideas as a possibility that could happen. Emily’s disconnection from society shows multiple examples of repression after her father’s death. Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” demonstrates the operations of repression inform this work, has core issues that are illustrated which are structured, and there are unconscious motives operating in the main characters. According to Lois Tyson, “repression doesn’t eliminate our painful experiences and emotions. Rather, it gives them force by making them the organizers of our current experience: we unconsciously behave in ways that will allow us to ‘play out,’ without admitting to ourselves, our conflicted feelings about the painful experiences and emotions we repress” (15). Emily’s father was overbearing and overprotective denying her a normal life to date at an early age. Emily’s father was the only man whom she had a relationship with in which she denied his death and tried to keep his body …show more content…

The Negro butler which Miss Emily had in the house was definitely waiting for her to die because after he let the first of the ladies in the house, he walked out the back door and disappeared never to be seen again. Miss Emily held her head high when she went into town, but probably one of her worst fears was Homer Barron leaving her as her father. She never recovered from the death of her father and his overprotective manner drove Miss Emily to live an abnormal life which caused her to kill Homer Barron. Emily never had a chance to enjoy life to the fullest because of the delusional society she created for herself that she did know how to release herself from this dark

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