Mr Grierson's Over Protectiveness

When Emily’s father was alive, he was a very protective and an enforcer over Emily. It’s not always a bad thing to be protective about your children, because I’m sure the parents want the best for their child. But in certain scenarios there is over-protecting and coddling, at times you need to let your loved one be a bit more independent. That being said, Emily’s father's over-protectiveness led to Emily being mostly isolated from the community. This is not good at all for a growing young girl, she needs to be exposed to wonders of the world first hand so when she’s on her own (which is inevitable in this case) she can function in society. The point being proved here is that the safeguarding by Mr. Grierson restricted emily from experiencing new things. Learning experiences would come of the world that people need to be exposed to in order to have a better understanding of how society operates. Not to mention, Mr. Grierson's over-zealousness forces Emily to not be able to seek love like any young girl would yearn to do. In the story A Rose for Emily, Mr Grierson's
Emily does try to branch out after her father's death with her love for Homer, which is good for her. But the community thinks otherwise. “ ‘She will kill herself’; and we said it would be the best thing” (Faulkner 7) This is an unfair assumption made by the community. Because of her father isolationism and protection over Emily, the town really never got to see her true self. For all we know if Emily had been brought up like a normal girl she could maybe fit right in with the community. But it’s all if’s, and’s, and but’s. We will never know because Emily is forever plagued by her father's loss and knows no other life than solitude and isolation. The only happiness Emily can really find is in Homer but Emily knows her father didn’t want her to have a husband and the community was adamant against whites mingling with