Miss Emily example essay topic

"A Rose for Emily" can be interpreted in many ways. Faulkner stresses that "A Rose for Emily" is a ghost story. On the other hand, the content of the story has lack of any fragment dedicated to a straight manifestation of ghost, therefore it is difficult to support Faulkner's opinion. In spite of it, the stories there are elements such as sense of times, few episodes, and supportive evidences for Faulkner's explanation.

Emily is an old lady who is very stubborn. Faulkner manages to show this through different events that happen in the story and how she reacts towards them. One of the events that happened was when Emily received a tax notice in the mail telling her that she has to pay her taxes. At this point in time, Colonial Sartoris had been dead and there was no recollection in the city files of what he had told her. Because she had refused to send any money to pay her taxes and Aldermen had shown up at her door to settle the situation. When he told her that she to pay her taxes, Emily simply said "I have no taxes in Jefferson".

(Faulkner, 142) The gentleman continued insisting that she should pay her taxes. Emily believed she was right and continued to say "see Colonial Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson". (Faulkner, 143) This is the first time Faulkner revealed how stubborn Emily could be. She told the Alderman to leave and that was the end of it. The second incident that showed Emily was stubborn was when she went to the pharmacy to buy some poison.

"I want some poison. I want the best you have. I don't care what kind" (Faulkner, 145) This gave me the impression that she was a little crazy and that it was possible that she was dangerous. Emily did many things that made her character seem stubborn and crazy.

Miss Emily would manage to make herself disappear for a certain amount of time. This will cause people to talk because no one would know where she was or what she was doing. At the end of they story when the town people were walking around her house, they finally found out what caused her house to smell disgusting. It was Homer Baron. He was laid down on a bed that was on a locked room.

This was when they knew that she was crazy because she murdered the only lover she ever had. People in this town like to gossip a lot about Miss Emily. When she went to the pharmacy to buy some poison, the town was convinced she was going to kill herself. When her father died, people called and dropped by the house to give Miss Emily their condolences. For three years, she told them that he was not dead, but alive.

She refused for her father's body to be disposed. The town thought she was crazy. One of the things they talked about was Miss Emily's servant that worked for her. They made racial comments about him. People started to complain to the judge about the smell. He was not able to make anything of it.

One lady complained that Miss Emily smelled bad. In conclusion Miss Emily was a very troubled person. All of the problems started the day her father died. In my opinion she couldn't cope with it. Throughout the story Emily did many things like paying her taxes, buying poison, and the death of her father. All of this made her character look like a ghost.