In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" you witness a new state of mind which interprets a new meaning of lonliness. This story revolves around one lonely soul; so unstable she can't let go of what she can't have anymore. Emily Grierson gave to the town and the town gave to her. Living in solitude she became mentally unstable and became a necrophilia all at the same time. Emily holds a shadowy obscure emotion in her consciousness; hers is a mind so naive and tortured it penetrates the soul.
             Emily's father had passed away and Emily became too unstable to realize that her father was truly gone. Her loneliness was catching up to her, making her do things to make herself believe something she shouldn't. Her father was there to protect her and almost smothered her. The town "remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and [they] knew that with nothing left she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will." Mixed with emotion, guilt, paranoia, and loneliness, losing her father made her so sick she kept his corps in her house for three days, "we did not say she was crazy then", before she finally broke down. As the town started to feel more and sorrier for her, she started to become even lonelier. Now being so lonely she imagined life as if it was the same as how she remembered. The death of her father
             Throughout most of this story Emily Grierson gives us the sense of courage and strength. She shows strength when she refuses the men who come to collect her taxes, even though her source of proof has been dead for several years. She seems to show strength even when the men are creeping around her house putting down lime to block out the smell. But this strength that she shows is only a face. It is only a cover to hide her inner insecurities and doubts about herself. What Emily Grierson shows on the outside is a face to protect her from the world as she se
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