How To Write A Literary Analysis Of A Rose For Emily

William Faulkner is a well known author in the early twentieth century; his literary work “A Rose for Emily” is especially well known. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in “A Rose for Emily” is a woman in the short story that lives in Mississippi in the late nineteenth century. Emily, was raised in an “old” money household by her father, has a superior outlook on life due to her father filling her head with how significant their family is supposed to be considered. Throughout the story, Emily goes through subtle transitions in her life that slightly modifies the way that she is viewed by the readers. Once Emily’s father dies, the town attempts to give their condolences, but Emily does not readily accept that he is dead, Emily continues to deny his death

The society also believes that Emily is holding her name too superiorly than what it should truly be held by saying, “ People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (100). The town felt that she should not have acted the way she was acting.

In Conclusion, Emily shows change throughout the story due to the fact that she begins hiding herself away from people consequently as situations happen in her life. Emily begins to develop her own controlling characteristic that she inherited from her late father. Emily does not listen to anyone, but instead she ensures that she participates in what she feels like doing even if that means killing her supposed lover with arsenic. By the conclusion, readers feel pity for her, but also strange about the