Without him her life changes, without him there is no structure and she would have to become a functioning member of society. ` After Mr. Grierson’s passing the mayor discovers that her father owed taxes which are now her responsibility. When the Board of Alderman congregate in the parlor of her home for a meeting to discuss her tax debt she calmly states “I have no taxes in Jefferson”. (pg. 149) The spokesman asks about the letter she received from the Sheriff she again is asserting that she owes no taxes and the “Perhaps her considers himself the Sheriff” he refusal to transition into a member of society is evident here.
Emily and Miss Brill both experienced isolation. The author implies Emily goes through isolation from a very young age. Emily’s family seemed to think that they were better than people in the town. “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away”(Faulkner p# 240), so as a young girl all male callers were ran off. Her whole life she was kept to the family and isolated from society because of the family’s idea of being better than everyone.
Then it went 30 years further back, to explain why she vanquished their fathers. This creates a little bit of mystery as well as going back in time to explain her. STYLE ANALYSIS “A ROSE FOR EMILY” !1 She never changed anything about herself and in doing so, made everyone in the town think she was crazy. “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… She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her,
Set apart from others, Miss Emily and Norman are able to exist the only way they know how, isolated and alone. Due to the unusual upbringings by their parents, the reader can assume both are consequently forced to live this way. Miss Emily’s father did not allow her to go out without him nor to have any company, thus allowing him to be the only person with whom she has a close relationship. Because of her overbearing father, even after his death, she is rarely seen by the townspeople. To the townspeople and the reader it makes perfect sense that somehow from the grave her father still has control over her, “as if that quality of her father had thwarted her woman’s life so many times had too virulent and too furious to die”(532).
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” centers around the lives of townspeople obsessed with a fellow Southern woman who has shut herself out from their community. Although the lineage of Miss Emily Grierson has deep roots in the community, she is anything but a normal citizen. Dominated by a controlling father, whose death leaves Miss Emily very alone, she ostracizes herself from the town by having limited contact with the outside world for the remainder of her life. The community itself does little to coerce Miss Emily out of her forced seclusion. A few routine visits from the townspeople, companionship from Homer Barron, who is found as a skeleton in her house upon her death, and assistance from her house keeper Tobe is the only interaction Miss Emily has with the outside world.
She is spending more time at hr real dad’s house and only goes home 2-3 a wk for a change of clothing. Clearly there is a clash of racial differences in the home and hr step dad is determined not to give up on Shanna but Shanna is clearly not interested in her 'white family and says that she wants to leave the house because she feels as though she is not in touch with hr culture and identity. The aspect of development that is affecting her is the lack of culture and identity in the home which she feels is a major missing part of her life and has been ever since hr mum passed
He was the most important person that led Emily’s behavior and made her act the way she did. Even when her father had died, Emily was still under his control. Because of the pressure that Emily’s father put on her, Emily’s mind and even her actions became very strange and altered. Emily’s father not only controlled her actions and how she felt about things, but he also affected her love and relationships with other men. Her father had said, “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such.” (364) Her father never allowed her to make her own decisions even when she was almost 30 years old.
Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family. Maggie turned out to be shy and refrained from social life since she did not leave the house after being burned. “She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me” (Walker 746). Too much attention leads to Maggie clinging to her mother and not enough attention drives Emily to not seek out a close relationship with her mother. Both mothers are concerned with the status of their daughters.
Emily has a house that nobody has been to in over ten years (with exception of her Negro servant). Emily and her father had a deal going with a mayor named Colonel Sartorius that stated she did not have to pay taxes. Years passed, Emily’s father died, and her husband-to-be/sweetheart deserted her shortly after. In the aftermath of these losses, Emily rarely left her house. Her home gave off a horrid smell and the town’s people were not happy that she wasn’t paying taxes.
She finds a deep down strength and courage in herself that leads her to want to find out what type of person she really is, and what she wants out of her life. Nora Helmer is a delicate character that had been pampered all of her life, by her father and by her husband. In every sense she is typical housewife. She is financially dependent on her father earlier and on her husband later. She never leaves her house, mostly because her husband is afraid of the way people talk.