While most readers may immediately recognize Emily as the criminal of the story, she is actually one amongst many other females who is victimized by the male dominance.
             In "A Rose for Emily" we see how past events can effect the character of someone and even their state of mind. Miss Emily seems to live in a sort of unrealistic world where death has no true meaning due to past endeavors. The first paragraph introduces her as a, "A small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt...merely plumpness in another was obesity to her....and she looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water. (30)"
             Miss Emily does not cope well with death. She does not accept or even recognize her father's death or the death of Colonel Satoris. "See Colonel Sartoris... I have no taxes in Jefferson (31)." This shows that she that she is numb to the world around her. If you read on it states that, "The Colonel has been dead almost ten years (31)." She does not want to acknowledge the fact that things are changing around her; therefore she is surrounding herself by death. What Faulkner tries to tell us is that we should understand death, disabling it from us, so that we are not like Emily due to her father. Right after Miss Emily's father died she tells the woman at her door, "That her father was not dead and she did that for three years, with the ministers calling her and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." This serves as a passageway into Miss Emily's mind grieving process. Faulkner makes you think she had a since a fear of letting go of such a controlling figure. He also suggests that we should expect the unexpected because you never know what is going to happen (like when Miss Emily killed Homer). Faulkner used third person narration so that we as readers were able to find out things abo
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