Emily Without Her Father

"A Rose for Emily" is normally a story of which talks mainly about a woman by the name Emily Grierson. Emily was raised up in a very wealthy family background just after the end of the civil war. In the story, Emily has been under strict control by her father throughout her life. Therefore, after the death of her father, she didn’t know nor could she understand on how to live her own life without her father. She was so close to her father than no one else thus they had established a very strong relationship. At first, Emily did not believe that her father was dead and she strongly denied it. Three days after is when she admitted about her father’s death after receiving much pressure from both the locals and the doctors and then she allowed the people to bury her father. Many of the people in the town
All the decisions concerning her life were made by the father and he even chose the person whom Emily could fall in love with. Emily had actually relied so much on her father throughout her entire life her life hence developing a very strong bond with the father. This is the main reason why Emily took three days before admitting that her father was truly dead and hence allowing the townspeople to properly bury the body. Therefore, she didn’t know what to do next nor how to live. After the burial, Emily decided to stay in her house since she felt safer there. She did not want to go to the outside world and interact with other people despite all the things that had happened and changed. Regardless the change about everything in the outside world, she still remained observant and did not accept the change. For example, after being approached by the city authorities about her taxes, Emily explains "See Col. Sartorius. I have no taxes in Jefferson", despite the fact that Col. Sartorius had already dead ten years ago (Hendricks et al