Joy In William Faulkner's The Life Of Bees

By not relying on anyone, Lily experiences pleasure.T-Ray, Lily’s father does not support Lily because he opposes to take care of the daughter of his wife who leaves him, and this results Lily to grow up learning about life by her own. As a matter of fact, living with T-Ray makes Lily sense the reality of life and this allows Lily to make appropriate decisions that make her joyful. Once Lily says, “Nothing was safe. I would have to remember that” (Kidd 101) as she was thinking about her entity. Lily is aware that to find joy, she needs to be careful around others because T-Ray makes it clear that the loved ones can also be not trustworthy. Not to mention that Lily spends time alone while living with T-Ray. She concentrates more about herself, which makes her happy.
Being lonesome benefits her likewise she faces and overcomes by herself the unfortunate memory of her mother’s tragedy event of death. This helps her to move on without thinking that it is her own fault that her mother does not exist in this world. In addition, by not depending on anyone, Lily starts to be proud of her own work. She shows her maturity as she cares about others’ feelings. While she works with the bees, she gets stung by a bee and she mentions, “I’m prideful enough to say I didn’t complain” (167). She worries that she will cause trouble for August which is not acceptable since August takes care of Lily by giving her a place to stay. Correspondingly, there are a lot of advantages of being able to live on one’s