Response to William Faulkners “A Rose for Emily” Essay Example

so the city authorities had to show up at her door. Her voice was dry and cold. L have no taxes In Jefferson.

Colonel Sartor explained to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves"(245). In this time period you did not speak to authorities like this, especially a female to a male, that was Just unheard of, but Emily did not care. I do believe that Miss Emily was a victim of the Old South for several reasons, but the mall one being that she was raised by her father.

He was the only man she knew how to love because that was the way he wanted it.

Her father made her independent but only to certain extent because she didn't want to let go of her fathers dead body. The townspeople said "We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would cling to that which had robbed her, as people will" (247).

Emily is a victim of the Old South because she cannot help the way her father raised her. She knew nothing else, maybe if her father would have gotten her husband she would have learned to be the traditional woman of the South.

In conclusion, Emily was far from being a symbol of the old south because she lacked all of the traditions and respects that woman of that time period had. Her house always had a horrible smell and she had servants to do all the cleaning and cooking opposed to other women. Also, she

talked to men with a certain rudeness that was UN heard of back then. I do believe that Emily Grievers was a victim of the 1 OFF of a husband, and scared off all the men that showed interest in her maybe her life would have turned out differently.