A Rose for Emily is a story which informs the reader of this tale about the leading character, Miss Emily Grierson whose entire life was on display and following her death, and the funeral was attended by many residents in the town. Notably, many critics popularly regard William Faulkner for the short tales rather than his articles and A Rose for Emily who is established in the south. For instance, several of his characters which he represents firstly in his stories seem to be more enhanced elements in his novels. A Rose for Emily is, therefore, a fictional story written by William Faulkner who won a Noble Prize Winner in 1949. Ultimately, the story is narrated by an unknown person who is witnessed in this case study and took place in the life of Emily. The essay seeks to explain Rose for Emily and its moral teachings in the community.
Faulkner, A Rose for Emily regards an aristocratic female who stayed in very unusual and secretive life. Miss Emily has frequently been being housed by her father. Emily’s father was the only man in her daughter’s life and, therefore, after his demise, Emily’s character became unnatural (Faulkner 20). However, the loss of her father’s life is not perceived as the primary cause of Emil’s insanity. Also, Miss Emily way of life was impacted by her owns experiences and expectations of herself, her neighbors' infatuation with her, and townspeople’s lack of authority over her.
Physical Appearance
Miss Emily physical description adjusts over the course of the tradition. The above case is because the tale narrates circumstances which took place over the ordinary course of more than four decades. Emily’s Hair color explains her as an older adult while indicating the passage of time in the novel (Faulkner 22). As a beautiful lady in the south, Emily appearance portrays her concerning the available choice and her status as a servant and how he viewed by the residents of the town. Emily skin isolates him from the rest of the world because of the eventual obesity. Notably, Emily’s real appearance is another factor in her isolation and is described to be divine. Emily looks like an angel, and this appearance emanated after the demise her father before for her to link with Homer (Faulkner 23). Moreover, Emily is described to appear to like an idol, and this blends her weirdly concept of how people perceive her as an insane person.
The story by William Faulkner in the A Rose for Emily elaborates the actions of the Emily as a white aristocratic female from South deeply. Faulkner utilizing several life aspects develops Miss Emily. The particular arrangement of the tale in the manner of flashback makes the reader of this piece of information assumes sympathizing with Emily (Muslija 14). Notably, the turmoil experiences of Miss Emily are due to her stubborn attitude towards innovation. Ultimately, in the Rose of Emily, the writer of the story presents Emily’s way of life such as the disappearance of her beloved ones, different perception, and theme of the resistance to change.
Family and Education Background
As the story of the A Rose for Emily starts, Emily is described as the fallen monument, and this informs the reader of the tale that Emily at some point in the past, her entire family held a high status in the town and that they lost the recognition later. The fact of both is shown in, and the home where Emily stayed is described as decorated with spires and domes and scrolled balconies’ and located in the most elect street in the town.
Emily’s father was immensely more affluent and accumulated enough wealth for some people in the town to believe the tale that the significant amount of cash which could not be compared to anyone in the city. The man later lost all the blessings, and his house turned to be coquettish and stubborn decay as Emily her only daughter could not afford to settle his financial obligations such as taxes and, therefore, stood before residents in the town as the tarnished gold head, obese and miserable (Muslija 15). The entire life of Emily was folded with poverty and later made her moral to decay but found it difficult to accept the fact that their wealth is no more.
Psychological Condition
Miss Emily, the main subject in the story by William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily is mainly strange by an average reader’s standard, and the character analysis of Emily could pass in the number of directions. Notably, is it not easy to specify the psychological condition of Emily as well as the contextual light (American Psychiatric Association 27). In the course of Faulkner’s narration, Emily’s idiosyncratic and erratic behavior became outright bizarre, and the people in the town were left meditating of how Emily kept on sleeping and living with the corpse of Baron.
At first, at the beginning of the story A Rose for Emily by Faulkner, the town people did not describe Emily as crazy since at that time she was neither treated, evaluated not diagnosed by any mental health professional. And yet the tale’s conclusion, the reader of the story flashes back via the narrative and identify several episodes where Emily’s behavior and character hinted at the possibility of the mental sickness and even if the town people did not reject the fact and left her intact as the social idol(American Psychiatric Association 28 ). In fact, this data could not be utilized to support the fact that Emily had schizophrenia as explained by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM- IV. Reasonably, Emily created the mental illness as the feedback to the demanding situations where she was staying in the Southern as a woman from an aristocratic social unit (American Psychiatric Association 29). Emily decompensate due to his inability to create adaptive and healthy defense and coping mechanism.
In summary, A Rose for Emily is a short tale which was initially published by William Faulkner. The case study is centered on the fictional town known as Jefferson, and the narration is titled allegoric since the term rose has multiple meanings. The information is given by an unnamed individual who was seen is all the events and involved the life is Emily, and the case emerged following the demise of the funeral of Emily. Therefore, the moral teachings we gather from this case study in innovation, warning against pride and the decay of people which are mainly described in the case study.
Works Cited
American Psychiatric Association. Quick reference to the diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2015: 23 – 45.
Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily." In the Norton anthology of American literature. Ed. Nina Baym. 2160-2166. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013: 10 – 78.
Muslija, Amila. "All Eyes On Miss Emily: An analysis of southern society through feminist perspective in William Faulkner's" A Rose for Emily, 2012: 7 – 18.
