“The man himself lay in the bed”
             Reading this atypical piece of work entitled “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner encourages a sense of thrill and stimulation within. Since Mr. Faulkner resided in Mississippi most of his writings reflect his home state, as does “A Rose for Emily”. The first person minor point of view is being told by the townspeople. The main character, Miss Emily, in this short gothic story that took place during the early 1900 hundreds demonstrated a conflict she was having with herself. I think that it is well known that our parents are the backbone to each person’s existence. Knowing this, William Faulkner managed to include through the events in the plot an underlining message mixed with a little flowered mockery. Although, Ms. Emily committed murder, she was a victim of her learned environment because of her father and the citizens of Jefferson.
             This story revolved around one town and one main character. The beginning of this woman’s well to do life in a poor southern state consisted only of herself and her domineering father living in the same house until the calling of God summoned her elsewhere. Miss Emily managed to make it to age thirty still being single with only the help of her father and “she would… continue to cling to that which had robbed her"(472). The town’s people assumed that “none of the young men were quite good enough for Ms. Emily and such”(471). When the only person in Emily’s life passed on, she stood in denial and refused condolences an aid to bury her
             father from the town ladies. The damage that her father had bestowed upon her by sheltering her from the rest of the world was starting to emerge at the time of his death. By over-protecting Emily and “clutching a horsewhip”(471) to control her life, caused her to become hermit-like in the town she grew up in and knew...