Imagine what it must be like to stand apart from the rest of society. Emily Grierson, the main character in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, experiences this first hand. In the beginning, Miss Emily, as well as her house, represents the traditional southern culture among the industrialized town. Southern culture is prideful of tradition, family, hierarchy, and community. Throughout the story, the town’s view of Miss Emily’s house as well the protruding smell develops the decline of the southern
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the life of a peculiar spinster is discussed through the view of a narrator, who is thought to be a representative of the townspeople in the close-nit town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Faulkner explores themes such as isolation, resistance to change, and death, covering a Southern gothic style. The main character, Emily, can be seen as grotesque and mysterious due to emotional and physical isolation; it is almost impossible not to view her character