Miss Emily was robbed of a proper childhood growing up because of her father and his child-rearing techniques that he used while raising her. The way that an individual is raised has a lasting effect on how they live their day-to-day life. Emily had a very close relationship with her father, and this was mostly due to him being the only man in her life. This lack of another man in her life made accepting her father's death very hard for Emily. She refused to believe that her father was dead and would not allow anyone in the house to dispose of the body. Many people would think that behavior like that was unacceptable and that she was crazy for believing that her father was still alive. However, Emily's fellow townspeople expected that type of behavior from someone that lost their father. One townsman stated, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will" (624). Miss Emily was not born crazy she became crazy due to various events that happened throughout her life.
             Emily's father believed that their family was more prestigious than the other families in town, and naturally this belief was handed down to Emily so that she began to think the same way. Since Emily's father thought that his family was somewhat better than the other families in town he thought that no man was deserving of his daughter, and did not allow his daughter to date any of these men. Any man that would come around to see Emily was driven away by her father. This went on her whole life so that by the time Emily was around thirty years old she was still single, and had never had a man in her life other than her father. This alone could have had a very negative effect on the way Emily develops relationships throughout her life.
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