How Does A Rose For Emily Change

It is simply human nature to fear change in one’s life. All people get that first hint of anxiety when experiencing or trying to handle change. However, how individuals handle this anxiety from change is what separates them all. Perfect examples came from two of the stories where the effects of this change are clearly shown. The difference in what it means to accept change varies from Miss Emily to Nathan in “A Rose For Emily” vs. “A Place I Have Never Been.” Miss Emily faces the biggest challenge in “A Rose For Emily” where the grief of losing someone consumes her life. In this story, Miss Emily is a big mystery to everyone in the town. Her idolized father had always stowed Emily away from the rest of the world in efforts to protect her and try to land her a perfect life. However, when his death came Miss Emily was in shock and is even left to pay off his taxes. When the ladies of the town came to her house to make arrangements, “Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face,” to suggest that she is not greatly affected by the loss of her father (Faulkner 469). Although she seems to not be phased at all after the death of her father, the stage of abandonment started.
Even though it had the same effects in the end, they respond very differently to their situations. Miss Emily responds to the loss of her father by venturing from his protective ways and trying to find a man to be with. On the other hand, compared to Nathan, he is not able to handle his struggles as well as Emily. He chooses to let the worry consume him and just live in fear of the unknown. The troubled life he is now leading is also affecting the people around him, like his best friend Celia. This differs greatly from the effects that Miss Emily’s life has because when she was suffering the townspeople did not really change their daily