Feminist Inequality In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
The patriarchal dominance is an analogy to global warming; despite our great achievements in environmental aspects, we are still struggling to deal with our social gender inequality. The debate on feminist ideology does not begin in this modern society; instead it has been discussed for many years. Authentically William Faulkner, corroborate the idea of the feminist ideologies that has taken place in his lifetime, by creating vivid, concrete visual imagery of Ms. Emily Grierson, the main character in the fictional short story “A Rose for Emily”. Certainly, because of the horrific actions, and crimes she has performed, Ms. Emily character can be analytically into multiple ways of women actions towards society. Among the numerous variables Faulkner
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illustrates the accept of Ms. Emily to patriarchal dominance through, socially refusing to approbate changes in her life, psychologically being desperate for men Company, also economically for being dependent on her father's properties.
Firstly, Faulkner characterizes Ms.
Emily as a woman does not accept changes in her life. When people lose someone close to them, they feel horrible; their heart breaks into pieces and their crushed sorrow takes time to heal. Compared to men, women see as a major part of this ideology because, for many centuries, women discern as a sensitive person. In the perspective of Miss Emily’s losing someone has begun with her mother, who died when Ms. Emily was young. After that, the only person she has left is her father; as he is an upper-class family, he raised her with respect and appearance beyond the town people. He was seeing her more than anything; even none of the young men in the town have enough quality to marry her. Apparently, after Mr. Grierson death, Miss Emily experiences the loss in her life and refused the changes by pretending nothing has happened. “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face” Falkner 2. Accordingly, Her controvert briefly explains how she is afraid to hurt her feelings and surrender for changes affect her lifestyle. Furthermore, in order to prevent the changes that are occurring in her life, she denies installing a mailbox. “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers” Falkner 4. This endorses, her poor condition that leads her to be lonely and not confident (scared revealing her secret crime of Homer), which is cause her social
neglect.
Secondly, Faulkner does not only show his feminist theory through her social oppression, he also made it clear by her psychological obsession to men. Miss Emily is a beautiful woman that no one from the young men in her town are good enough to marry her. Yet after her father’s death, she felt lonely. Correspondingly, her hope to make a family has risen dramatically. After a while of his absence, in spite of the traditions and beliefs of the town people, she makes a relationship with a strange man Mr. Homer from north, who has come to do constructions in her town. In the eye of the town people this was a disgrace and bad role model for the young people. Nevertheless, Faulkner indicates the obsession of Ms. Emily with Homer creates a horror and disturbance situation for the town people. Homer is new to the town, his presence and socialism attracts many public eyes. In the other hand, Ms. Emily is a lonely woman, never been in a serious relationship due to her father’s disapproval to marry a poor man. After all, Homer is the last hope she has to be her mate and make her equal to those women that are feeling pity for her. However, she has intimidated someone might take him as her father, so to Success her task of making him her future husband she poison and keep him as a corpse to fulfill her want of man. The reinforcements of Ms. Emily to patriarch dominance does end with her obsession with a man, also she is economically dependent on her father’s property. When Mr. Grierson was alive, instead of being self-independent Ms. Emily was living with him and because of his law and order she unable to create a stable relationship with any man in her town. After a death of Mr. Grierson, she inherited his house and start living in; however she could not take responsibility for paying tax of the house either. "I received a paper, yes, but see Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson" Faulkner 1. When the new generation rise, come to her house, for inquiry of tax payment, Ms. Emily indicates she has received the tax payment paper; yet, she has repeatedly argued her tax is paid to Colonel Sartoris by her father and she has no money owed by the government. Nevertheless, after her father and lover death she completely precludes from going out, and builds dependency on her Negro. “After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. The only sign of life about the place was the Negro man—a young man then—going in and out with a market basket” Faulkner 4.
illustrates the accept of Ms. Emily to patriarchal dominance through, socially refusing to approbate changes in her life, psychologically being desperate for men Company, also economically for being dependent on her father's properties.
Firstly, Faulkner characterizes Ms.
Emily as a woman does not accept changes in her life. When people lose someone close to them, they feel horrible; their heart breaks into pieces and their crushed sorrow takes time to heal. Compared to men, women see as a major part of this ideology because, for many centuries, women discern as a sensitive person. In the perspective of Miss Emily’s losing someone has begun with her mother, who died when Ms. Emily was young. After that, the only person she has left is her father; as he is an upper-class family, he raised her with respect and appearance beyond the town people. He was seeing her more than anything; even none of the young men in the town have enough quality to marry her. Apparently, after Mr. Grierson death, Miss Emily experiences the loss in her life and refused the changes by pretending nothing has happened. “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face” Falkner 2. Accordingly, Her controvert briefly explains how she is afraid to hurt her feelings and surrender for changes affect her lifestyle. Furthermore, in order to prevent the changes that are occurring in her life, she denies installing a mailbox. “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers” Falkner 4. This endorses, her poor condition that leads her to be lonely and not confident (scared revealing her secret crime of Homer), which is cause her social
neglect.
Secondly, Faulkner does not only show his feminist theory through her social oppression, he also made it clear by her psychological obsession to men. Miss Emily is a beautiful woman that no one from the young men in her town are good enough to marry her. Yet after her father’s death, she felt lonely. Correspondingly, her hope to make a family has risen dramatically. After a while of his absence, in spite of the traditions and beliefs of the town people, she makes a relationship with a strange man Mr. Homer from north, who has come to do constructions in her town. In the eye of the town people this was a disgrace and bad role model for the young people. Nevertheless, Faulkner indicates the obsession of Ms. Emily with Homer creates a horror and disturbance situation for the town people. Homer is new to the town, his presence and socialism attracts many public eyes. In the other hand, Ms. Emily is a lonely woman, never been in a serious relationship due to her father’s disapproval to marry a poor man. After all, Homer is the last hope she has to be her mate and make her equal to those women that are feeling pity for her. However, she has intimidated someone might take him as her father, so to Success her task of making him her future husband she poison and keep him as a corpse to fulfill her want of man. The reinforcements of Ms. Emily to patriarch dominance does end with her obsession with a man, also she is economically dependent on her father’s property. When Mr. Grierson was alive, instead of being self-independent Ms. Emily was living with him and because of his law and order she unable to create a stable relationship with any man in her town. After a death of Mr. Grierson, she inherited his house and start living in; however she could not take responsibility for paying tax of the house either. "I received a paper, yes, but see Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson" Faulkner 1. When the new generation rise, come to her house, for inquiry of tax payment, Ms. Emily indicates she has received the tax payment paper; yet, she has repeatedly argued her tax is paid to Colonel Sartoris by her father and she has no money owed by the government. Nevertheless, after her father and lover death she completely precludes from going out, and builds dependency on her Negro. “After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. The only sign of life about the place was the Negro man—a young man then—going in and out with a market basket” Faulkner 4.