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A Rose For Emily Insanity Analysis

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Can you cause insanity by depriving someone of socialization? In the story, “A Rose for Emily,” it seems to hold true. Emily grew up under a controlling father that did not let her associate with the townspeople. Later in life, after her father died, you began to see her insanity creeping out. She denied that her father died for three days until she finally allowed someone to come in to take his body away for a quick funeral. The townspeople overlooked her insanity because they believed she was only grieving. After this, she mostly hid in her house only coming out occasionally until Homer Barron and his crew of laborers came into town to build sidewalks. Homer and Emily began seeing each other even though people said she was too good for him

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