A roSe for emily

In William Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' ,we can see different sections of time which are put forward to make us observe the entire life of the main character Emily who is regarded as complicated and bizarre.The story is based on the woman who is once connected to the higher part of the society and gradually we can observe decrease of her status quo with in which she lives decays over time.Emily is portrayed as an eccentric, unbalanced character full of mystery,however, the reasons of that situation can be well understood if the life of Emily is closely scrutinized.For example,Emily has a father who has a dominant nature as he chases off Emily's suitors.The very father figure can make Emily tend to have an oppressive nature as well.Since Emily is not able to have a free life in which she can make her own choices, she becomes transformed in a controlling figure in her life after her father's death.We can see distinct instances of the very of her transformed characteristic when she refuses to pay taxes or her intention to buy poison since she regards herself as a law-maker who can choose her own rules.When she kills Homer who is about to be her husband with the poison she buys, she hides his body in the upstairs of her house which again declares her sense of control over somebody who is not alive.We can also correlate the house and Emily herself since like the house ,Emily is also once belongs to the elegant neighbourhood but now is vestige of a lost era.The house can outstand in the neighbourhood as an only one which represents a remaining of a dying world of Southern aristocracy.Emily who is constantly tried to be observed by her neighbours is once young and beautiful having a lot of suitors is now old and plump having Homer as her mere suitor.The house is a symbol of mystery since no one can observe inside it like Emily who is a distant figure who does not go outside and keeps herself away from other people.But only after her death,the people can intrude her house and her very private altar upstairs.