Complete 4 page APA formatted essay: A Rose for Emily.Download file to see previous pages... The story delivers not just sadness but many other emotions like, frustration, shame and confusion. Emily i

Complete 4 page APA formatted essay: A Rose for Emily.

The story delivers not just sadness but many other emotions like, frustration, shame and confusion. Emily is a bizarre character who trapped herself in a world of delusion after the death of her father and especially after the betrayal by Homer Barron, the man who was supposed to marry her. When Emily got withdrawn from the society, the only man remained in her life was her servant Tobe a black, expressionless man who talked nothing about her to the community. Her condition and behavior towards the world may be termed as ‘mental illness’ but it is noticeable that nowhere in the story she is called ‘crazy’ instead she is sympathized by the ladies of her community as ‘poor Emily, which suggest that there was some injustice made to her that caused her described state. (Kelly, 2007) Change is very essential to anything and everything in life, whether at personal level or in terms of social thoughts past should not become the future. Past should remain in the past. Through the conversation made in the story about Emily, it is derived that her father over protected her from getting engaged to people specially men. That is why even at the elder age she remained unmarried. Her father was a southern man with an old school of thought and he made Emily a victim of his thought leaving her a long in the surrounding of people with the same thoughts as he had. It is a requirement to move ahead with time, people who do not follow the concept disturb there life themselves, and also affect people related to them. It is not very back in time when the head of the families treated there family as their property just to retain the class they belong to or to protect their so called status. Every individual has dreams of his future, for example, a girl like Emily growing up may be dreaming of getting married, having her on family. When such dreams are not fulfilled at the right time they cause destruction within. For living not only food and air is important, but a reason to live keeps a person living. And when life has broken dreams it becomes difficult to trust someone. Emily was not close to anyone in the community because of the same reason. Her personality lacks the reason to live. Another effect of the factor is not letting go with you get. Homer Barron came to Emily’s life as treasure she never let go even after killing him, she did not even let go his dead body, the same way she was not letting go her father’s. When she seems to realize Homer would not marry her she killed him and locked his dead body in a room. Homer was a northern man with the new school of thought the concept of marriage for such people is of a trap and nothing else. Here the clash of modern and postmodern tradition also exists. Emily lived her life under the postmodern supervision of her father, who with a fear of being alone did not let her go. She was even more backward then the community she lived in. the isolation she formed around her made her more complex. Then the burden of maintaining the prestige of her father made her even worse. While Homer was a free man who travelled due to his work, his thoughts were very open as compare to Emily. He hang out with her was so very normal to him, but for the women he was time passing was greedy for love and company. For her it was the matter of life and death and she proved it to. Every human is a slave to his desires, but only a strong head could stay away. In this story by Faulkner every character seems weak at the hand of their desires, whether it’s Emily, her father, the town ladies or Homer.