In his short story "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner writes of a daughter keeping the body of her dead father for couple of days. Nonetheless, Emily Grierson's reason for holding on to her father is much different from my family wanting everyone to say farewell to my great-aunt. Emily's seclusion from others and dependency on her father is what kept her from letting go. Without her father, she felt like she had nothing, which is a common feeling amongst mourners. However, Emily is not a normal person and because of this, her dependency causes her to go to the extreme. The death of her father is the first major change in Emily's life and it leads to many events in the story as well as Emily's own death. As a result of Emily's lack of a maternal figure, isolation from society, and her disturbed relationships with men, Emily loses her mind and her will to live.
             Emily's childhood without a mother causes her to be clueless to the ways of society and develop dependency issues with her father. It seems that Emily grows up without the manners of a woman of her stature. One reason for this assumption is that Emily cuts her hair, "When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl [...]" (133). Without a mother figure, Emily relies on her father more than she should considering the era in which she lives. It is quite possible that Emily even has an incestuous relationship with her father. The way she denies her father's death helps support the theory, "She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body" (133). It is obvious that Emily depends on her father, but perhaps a little too much.
             Because of Emily's isolation from society, it causes her to lose her normality. The way the Griersons seclude themselv...