Foreshadowing in the Relationships between Emily, her Father

             Foreshadowing in the Relationships between Emily, her Father and
             Her Lover in "A Rose for Emily"
             In "A Rose for Emily" William Faulkner uses the first person plural and uses the "we" point of view indicating events described by a resident of Jefferson. Jefferson is a town in the southern United States where the short story is taking place. It is a small white southern society town where everyone knows each other and knows everything about each other, and generally being such a small town during the early decades of the twentieth century no one kept a secret. Throughout the short story there is much comparison between Mr. Grierson, Emily's father and Emily's lover, Homer Barron. Emily Grierson's relationship with her father foreshadows her relationship with Homer.
             Growing up in this small town of Jefferson, Emily had no one in her life beside her father. The relationship between them was very strong. Mr. Grierson had prevented her from maturing sexually in the normal and natural way. Emily's father was a proud man "an imperious man, proud of his heritage and of his family's status in Jefferson-had constantly interposed himself between Emily and any male interested in courting her"
            
            
             (Scherting 400). Emily was already over thirty and had been denied normal contacts with the opposite sex. Then an extremely traumatic event occurred in Emily's life, so outrageous that she could not even cope with it, Mr. Grierson died. The neighbors of Jefferson came to give Emily their condolences but when she answered the door, she told them that her father was not dead. Three days after his death, Emily being in denial about the lose of her father, she guarded his corpse and turned away everyone that would take him from her. Mr. Grierson had to be buried quickl
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