Miss Emily Up Close
In the short story of A Rose for Emily, the main character illustrates a disturbed individual that doesn't want to separate herself from a deceased loved one. Everyone knows what its like to loose a loved one, but the town of Jefferson had no idea how hard Emily had taken death until they unraveled her deep, dark secret.
People knew what it must have been like to be Emily. They knew the type of life she had lived and felt bad for the way her father had kept her all cooped up and sheltered away from any man. They also knew her father had felt that no man was good enough for her. The people of Jefferson felt that the family thought they were better then everyone else and showed no sort of insanity. When her father died, people realized the toll it had taken on Emily. They were somewhat relieved to know he was gone, and she too would discover what it was like to be a ?pauper.? They also knew they could pity her and the woman even came to her house to console her. They found it interesting when they saw no sense of grief amongst her face, and that she acted like she had no idea of the death of her father. People of Jefferson still didn?t think she was crazy, they had just figured it was all she had to do. She wasn?t very tidy and she had left an African American to clean up her house and be her butler. They women knew that a man surely didn?t know how to clean a house so they knew he was the reason for the horrible smells. The scent of her house was gruesome, and left people nauseous. Unfortunately, no one had the guts to let her know that she had basically had an odor, which surrounded her property. So the townspeople had squeezed lemon juice around her yard to relieve the horrid smell. When Miss Emily died, every soul in Jefferson had attended. They wanted to see what the house had looked like and men sought her as a fallen monument to the town.
Miss Emily kept to herself and was a quiet woman of old age. She didn?t want to let her father go because he was the only thing she really had left. After he had died, she had a hard time dealing with it and denied his death to the town. It took three days before she would release the body and give him up to be buried so she didn?t have to seek any type of punishment under the law. She also denied having seen any form of taxes and said that Colonel Sartoris (which was dead) had them. When her father died she had fallen in love with a man named Homer Barron. He kept...
