A Rose for Emily By William Faulkner :: Free Essay Writer

In my opinion, William Faulkner displays a perfect example of the old saying, what goes some comes virtually in the short story A Rose For Emily. The primary(prenominal) char achievementer, dominate Emily Grierson, doesnt know why the public eye looks at her the port it does, she also doesnt know why people act so differently around her. I believe it is strongly because of her mystify and the way he treated her while she was growing up. The story lonesome(prenominal) spoke briefly ab tabu the father, but what they did say made him out to be somewhat controlling person. The story mentioned that there was a describe in the house that showed head for the hills Emily and her father standing in the doorway. send packing Emily was placed in the background and her father was in the front with a whip. To me, that seems very intimidating and controlling. In some situations people use a whip to control or tame a situation or even person. An some other instance that seemed to be cont rolling on the fictitious character of the father was that no one was ever good enough for his daughter, Miss Emily. Mr. Grierson was always running off the young men that would come around the house to see Miss Emily. Miss Emilys father never even tried to see if some(prenominal) of the young men were of any interest to Miss Emily. The story also states that the Griersons thought that they were better than the other people in the town. The fact that Miss Emilys father was a controlling man was one of the main, but not only, motivations for the way that Miss Emily acted and reacted to the public.Another characteristic of Miss Emily was that she was not a very complaisant person with the community except for that six or seven old age when she taught china painting. The reason that I feel Miss Emily acted in this way was again due to the controlling nature of her father and the fact that she was raised to think that she was better than the other people around her. With Miss Emily s father being in control of the things in her life she did not know how to react to or communicate with other people in a normal manner. The next action that I would like to cut across that Miss Emily acted upon was to choose a man that no one concord with.