Professor McGlew
English112
11 October 2014
Death and a Protagonist
In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” we meet a protagonist Emily Grierson. Emily is so objective to change that she’s watched, by the townspeople, decay. Her decay shows the death of aged values and lifestyles. Grierson allows the death of her father to influence her so much she goes to the furthest extreme to keep Homer in her life.
In parts one through three we’re told about times changing and Emily staying the same she starts physically transforming after the death of her father. The house Emily lived in is described as “a big squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome