A Rose For Emily Grierson Character Analysis

“A Rose for Emily” is a short story in which William Faulkner, the author, furnishes an external glimpse of a quirky and conventional hermit. Emily Grierson is the main character who is classic southern woman with a majestic sense about her. She was a mystery to the townspeople, which leads those outside of her protective environment to make assumptions about Emily’s life inside her time-honored and tattered estate. This intensifies when Emily’s father dies and she is unwilling to admit his death for three days. After a life of having potential suitors rejected by her father, she spends time after her father’s death with a man named, Homer Barron.
Emily Grierson was unable to give up her father’s body “she told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days ( )” Emily had only known the love of her father even if it was a stern, harsh love. Emily experienced no other kind of love only the love of her father who was exceedingly protective and clear out any and all suitors which have come calling by “clutching a horsewhip”. ( ) A horsewhip would definitely deter any caller to run away, this makes me wonder if Emily’s father was jealous of the suitors and wanted his daughter to himself for why would you not even give one caller a chance to call upon your daughter? I do have to say a
“The leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray.” ( ) The dust possibly added the protection Emily desired and to conserve the memories Emily wanted to treasure. The Grierson home was left as if her father was still alive and Emily was yet a young girl. For keeping items in its place, made it look as if time had definitely stood still. Why else would she keep a picture that she had drawn as a child still in plain