A Good Man Is Hard To Find, A Rose For Emily And Job History

While the narrator feels regret for not being able to raise her daughter right, she understands that mistakes will be made and her children can still grow up to be okay in the world. While Emily learns from her past and works towards a new future, it is important to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect child. In realizing that the narrator and Emily are very similar in their personalities as well as their young adult struggles, it is important to lean on family members for support in times of

Although she appears to have a strong relationship with her grandmother,

She has a heart for people. She has expectations for others but also for herself. Emily wants to be unique and build her own house to the liking of what she wants. She wants the house to fit the lifestyle she falls into as she raises her family. Her life goals give her a visual of where she wants to be.

Through the mother we can guess that Emily, when she was old enough to notice her surroundings, hated the care she was given outside of her mother. From going to her father’s relatives to daycare she changed both physically and in her demeanor. Not getting a glimpse into Emily’s head forces the reader to infer what Emily feels towards her mother and her situation based off of the descriptions noticed by her mother. No one around Emily saw the uniqueness her mother did, this leads to the assumption that she became very depressed.

Not only that, as Homer becomes a popular figure in town and is seen taking Emily on buggy rides on Sunday afternoons, it scandalizes the town and increases the condescension and pity they have for Emily. They feel that she is forgetting her family pride and becoming involved with a man beneath her station. Even though Emily is from the high class family, it does not mean that she is living up to the pleasant lifestyle. As a matter of fact, she is actually living a gloomy and desolate life, which is essentially the opposite lifestyle expected for Emily's rank in society by the townspeople. Although Emily once represented a great southern tradition centering on the landed gentry with their vast holdings and considerable resources, Emily's legacy has devolved, making her more a duty and an obligation than a romanticized vestige of a dying order.

Both Emily and Robert are prematurely judged by the narrators in both stories, and the assumptions are so far fetched from the reality. Miss. Emily is perceived to be a lonely old woman, whom nobody ever spoke with. Since they never talk with her or learn anything about what is going on in her life, the townspeople begin to gossip to make up for this. They knew her father had driven away any man from becoming close to her, and they just thought to themselves, “ poor Emily” (32).

To what extent is the outcome of Emily’s life her mother’s fault, and what is the cost of having to be a single mother in any day in age? The narrator however fully blames the effect this had on her child on herself and wallows in the guilt. She says things like “If I knew then what I know now” or “ My wisdom came too late” and clearly marks her guilt (Olsen). Furthermore, Emily grew up during the “terrible war years” she had to learn to use that maturity and responsibility gained from having to raise herself and be raised from people who didn’t fully appreciate her to help raise her siblings. All these factors cause grief in the narrator in realizing the type of childhood her daughter had and what resulted in her.

She is mentally disturbed, and driven to her act by insanity. Miss Emily kills her victim, Barron, to keep him around because she truly loves him and she does not want to let go. Both protagonists have a distorted perception of

This grandmother is proven to be unsympathetic with the use of manipulation, sneakiness, dishonesty, and unconcerned with her family’s well-being. Throughout the beginning of the short story, the grandmother begins to show manipulation and sneakiness. She wants everything to be her way and to achieve that,

This ultimately characterize women as having less decency. During the life of Emily's Father, he doesn't allow her to date. Emily father thinks their family is

She was sixty-five and did not approve of lounging… The present generation was shamelessly lax.” (Christie, 7-8). We already understand Emily from these few words. We can learn more about her throughout the story, but Christie has given us information to get a basic archetype.

Throughout the story, the grandmother shows herself to the reader that she looks at herself

Emily father has past away, and it gives the townspeople to feel a sympathetic feeling towards her. They go to her house to console her in her time of need. Yet she does not let anyone come close to her, and she does not want to listen to anything

There is so much pity in what Emily asking the countrymen to not judge. While I believe she felt one with nature and how it made her feel. She was very sheltered and only had the comfort of her home to provide her what the world

She is unable to pass a day without thinking of her deceased child and despises how she is unable to move forward from the event. At the same time, she scorns the man for showing indifference upon the event, as she may feel some jealousy for his ability to continue on with his life. The root of this issue, though, is that she feels that the man is showing too little effect from the incident. The father did not leave the task of burial to someone else, instead, he physically dug into the earth and planted his child’s body in the soil. To the woman, this may seem like the action of a heartless person.