Renowned writer named William Faulkner once said, "The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."" A conflict can be within the character himself, his ambitions, morals, or between what is right and wrong. In the short story, "A Rose for Emily"," a young lady has a terrible life due to a conflict of not being able to get over the past. This internal conflict can be seen through her two main conflicts, which are against the society who does not understand her, and a conflict against her self over the theme of love.
Emily's conflicts began when her father died. At first, she cried for days and denied his death, saying, "He's not dead, and rejecting condolences" (par. 27). She hid in her house for a few months and, "when the community began to see her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows- sort of traffic and serene" " (par.29). As she became gloomy, the society where she lived in began to add conflict. When the townspeople smell the foul stink from her house they complain to the judge of town asking him to take action against it. The judge responded by saying, "Dammit, sir, will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"" (par. 19). .
The townspeople soon spread lime around her house to get rid of the stink. Her main conflict started when she refused to pay taxes to the local gov't. After her father died, in 1894, the mayor, Colonel Sartoris, remitted her tax by creating an "involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town"" (par. 4). But years later, there was a new mayor and they demand taxes. When the police officials came to her house she said, "Perhaps he considers himself a sheriff. I have no taxes in Jefferson " when she is asked about the letter from the sheriff of town" (par.
