Examples Of Emily's Mental Deterioration

The townspeople never say that miss Emily is crazy nor is she ever diagnosed with a mental illness, but she shows symptoms and behavior that imply that she is crazy and is mentally ill. Her father isolates her from the whole town, so her father’s actions are what drive her crazy and mentally ill. One reason why people may see Miss Emily as crazy is because she tried to hold on to her father’s body and tried to convince everyone in the town that he wasn’t dead. Faulkner says, “She did that or three days with the ministers calling on her and doctors trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.

She denied the truth, also, she sleeps next to the smelling corpse at home for three days. After buried the body, Emily cut the connections with the

The townspeople overlooked her insanity because they believed she was only grieving. After this, she mostly hid in her house only coming out occasionally until Homer Barron and his crew of laborers came into town to build sidewalks. Homer and Emily began seeing each other even though people said she was too good for him

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.

Because her family was prominent in the town of Jefferson, Emily Grierson was watched her entire life and wondered about by everyone. The townspeople had a lot to do with Emily’s changing mental condition because they constantly gossiped about everything that happened in her life. It generally

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).

The previous lavishness of the “big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies…set on what had once been [the] most select street” (437) indicates that Emily came from a well-off family that was probably highly respected. The whiteness of the house can be taken to symbolize the innocence of her youth, and that as she got older her macabre habits manifested themselves and polluted that innocence, leaving the house dingy and tainted. The condition of the house when Emily dies is that of a worn down vestige to the past, “an eyesore among eyesores” (437), representing how the towns people saw her. She was a curiosity, a clandestine entity that could only be unraveled after her death when there was no one left to safe guard the dark secrets of her house. The house stands as a monument to a lost time and a testament to tradition that has no place in the modern era, much like Emily

Her mother is persuaded to send her to a covalent home and Emily had a difficult time there because they didn’t allow any of the girls to keep personal belongings or "love anyone" (Olsen). After Emily came back from the covalent home, she became distant and refused her mother's attempts of comfort. A bright spot in Emily's life is her gift in comedy. The biggest obstacle for Emily would be not believing that she is helpless to the hardships life has thrown at

In William Faulkner’s, “A Rose for Emily,” the historical context is important to understand. In order to fully comprehend the short story there must be some sort of understanding about the time period in which the story took place. This short story took place in the 18th/19th century during and after the Civil War in the South. In “A Rose for Emily” the historical context shows the social, economic, and the cultural environment of the background. Miss Emily was born during the Civil War.

The lack of support and separation from her parents likely facilitated the development of her eating disorder, as eating disorders are often linked to psychological and emotional health. This disorder would be the main contributor to Emily’s larger problem, her frail and weak persona. Mentally, Emily's eating disorder manifested as a gradual internal decay, as her worsening mental state was symbolized by the persistent progression of her disordered eating. Though physically, Emily was not eating enough for what her body required, so her appearance would be negatively altered to reflect that. As such,

To compare, Faulkner shares a slice of evidence as to why Emily has an uncontrollable obsession for the dead, “After her father 's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all.” (Faulkner) Given these points, her father becomes arrogant and isolates her from society, or anyone who is willing to take Miss Emily from him. When her father, the only man in the world who has loved her,

From a very young age, she found herself being confined in her home with her father and their butler. There is no mention of her mother, so one can only assume that the mother was absent in Emily’s life. Emily’s father isolated Emily away from the outside world, thinking that no one would ever be good enough for her. This is where the reader begins to see the dependent and possessive nature. Being that she was sheltered away from the outside world, she had no friends, thus becoming dependent on her father.

The existent generation establish traditions that intervene Miss Emily's desolation from social order. While Miss Emily's aloneness endured, new traditions began to surface. "When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the mutual numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it"(Beers and Odell 726). Although Miss Emily's refusal is accepted, it rises the barrier of reclusiveness and places it on hold. " Emily needs love so desperately that she is willing to bend and perhaps even flaunt tradition when she allows Homer Barron to court her" Kurtz states referring to how high Grierson's are held over day laborer sand how people believed it to be "tradition" for a Grierson to marry someone as highly held as them(40).

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

From the very beginning we learn that Miss Emily Grierson did not go out of her house much, or if she did she did not have a lot of people over because everyone wanted to see inside her house when she died. The narrator makes the house sound like the yard is cluttered with years of historical items. We start getting an insight of Miss Emily’s life now she was traditional and there for a long time in that town. She would not accept charity from anyone even though her father made donations to the city and they were just trying to pay back his kindness. When the next generation comes in modern ideas also come in Miss Emily gets a tax notice, next a formal letter, then a letter from the mayor.