William Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily demonstrates that seclusion causes the inability to form relationships and people to go crazy. Emily turns psychotic after her father's death and cannot form a relationship with anyone.
             As a young adult, Miss Emily was very lonely. Her father would drive away all of her suitors. Because of her father doing this Emily never learned how to form a relationship with anyone. When her father dies Emily is only thirty years old. Miss Emily shows her loneliness by trying to save her father's own body. No one in the right state of mind would keep a dead body, but that just proves how distorted a mind can be when someone does not let you interact with other parts of life. Emily did not know better then to want to keep her father around because he was all she knew. Eventually townsmen talked her into getting rid of the dead body. "The people did not call her crazy...They knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her" (82) Meaning that the townspeople thought Miss Emily would have to come to realize that she needed to interact with other people. With her father dead, not being able to control her they thought it was possible for her to start interacting. Little do people know is that once the mind is distorted in a certain way of thinking it can never go back to thinking normally.
             Miss Emily is lost in the past. She does not move forward as the townspeople thought she would. The Mayer of Miss Emily's town told her she did not have to pay taxes because he knew she could not even work or know how to do them. "Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town which, the town, preferred this way of repaying" (82) When the new Mayer came into office, he wanted Miss Emily to pay taxes. He continuously would send her tax notices, but she refused to pay them. ...