Effects Of Hypocrisy In A Rose for Emily

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they first retell what actually happened and then add their own interpretations and assumptions. The double perspective one gets invites to draw one's own conclusions from a more objective point of view, which mine hopefully is!

Miss Emily was brought into the spotlight the same moment as her father died. Being the last remaining person from the high ranking Grierson family in town, she became the new ambassador of the old days. The people welcomed her with open arms, without actually knowing anything more about her than her admirable name. Her father's death also meant that Miss Emily's unrevealed secret was brought into the grave. It is well known that insanity is a hereditary disposition, and Miss Emily's great-aunt, lady Wyatt, had "gone absolutely crazy"(80) before she passed away a couple of years earlier. Emily's father had since then dissociated from that branch of the family, as if to run away from a dishonorable influence. I believe that he was aware of her ...

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outside her closed front door. Her clock had stopped a long time ago, and she preferred living her isolated and protected world inside her house. She did not take care of neither her own personal health nor her house, which both were left to fall into ruin. She was totally lackadaisical for the future; moreover, she had lost the concept of time. When the city authorities came to tell her that she no longer can run away from her taxes, she simply dispatch them by saying "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson" (Faulkner 79). The only problem was that he passed away ten years ago. She didn't want any intervention, nor was she in any need of compassion or companionship for ...

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