A rose for emily

            
             "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, is a story set back in post civil war era, in the Southern United States. I found this story quite alarming and really ended up feeling sorry for Miss Emily.
             Miss Emily Grierson was a disturbed, proud and lonely woman, growing up with only her father and a Negro man servant. During the years in which her father was alive the Grierson's had a way of thinking that they were better than everyone else in the town of Jefferson, in fact they were so much better than everyone else in town that no boy in the whole town of Jefferson was good enough to date Miss Emily. .
             When Miss Emily's father died the death had a profound effect on her, for days after her father passed people would come to the house begging her to let them dispose of his body and, as the story states, "She told them her father was not dead." Finally after three days she let them finally take and bury the body, quickly; quickly due to the foul smell of decay. Miss Emily was over thirty when her father died and left her all alone. We see this inability to let go once again when she poisons her lover, Homer Barron, because he was going to leave her. At the end of the story the narrator reveals to us that for years Miss Emily has kept Homer Barron's dead body in a locked bedroom upstairs this is upsetting for the reader in two ways; one because to think of anyone so morbid as to keep a dead body locked in a bedroom for years is just truly wrong and in another way it really makes the reader feel sorry and very sad for Miss Emily's inability to be left alone and for her inability to accept change. .
             I believe that Miss Emily was a round character. Miss Emily slowly deteriorates over time as we see by the way the narrator speaks of her hair becoming gray. "During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray," also in the reference to the Negro growing more gray and more stooped.