Character Analysis Of Miss Emily In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
In “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, the protagonist was a woman known as Miss Emily who was practically mute yet mysterious. She started as a woman for which men wanted to be suitors and ended as an obese woman with a skeleton structure. What is learned of her is through the eyes of the townsfolk and possibly her butler.
Miss Emily by the time of her father’s death was pitied by the town for how broken and alone, they knew she was. After Homer, it seemed that the insanity in which was nodded too through her great aunt was shown or when they came to collect taxes and she proclaimed, “‘I have no taxes in Jefferson’”. As Homer never planned to marry her, everyone thought that she would kill herself after buying poison but in fact it
Miss Emily by the time of her father’s death was pitied by the town for how broken and alone, they knew she was. After Homer, it seemed that the insanity in which was nodded too through her great aunt was shown or when they came to collect taxes and she proclaimed, “‘I have no taxes in Jefferson’”. As Homer never planned to marry her, everyone thought that she would kill herself after buying poison but in fact it