A Rose for Emily Factors the Impacted Miss Emilys Behavior

A Rose for Emily: Factors the Impacted Miss Emilys Behavior A Rose for Emily is a fictional short story written by 1949 Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner. Faulkners A Rose for Emily is about an aristocratic woman who lived a very secretive and unusual life. Miss Emily had always been very sheltered by her father. He was the only man in her life and after his death, her behavior became even more unnatural. However her fathers death cannot be seen as the only cause of Miss Emilys insanity. Miss Emilys behavior was also influenced by her own expectations of herself, the townspeoples lack of authority over her, and her neighbors infatuation with her. The narrator tells us the Griersons had always had always†¦show more content†¦The narrator also reveals that Miss Emily had too much pride to accept any charity or pity from others. Miss Emily knew no authority. The townspeople would at times attempt some type of control, but they gave in easily when Miss Emily resisted. When the man who had deceived her into not paying taxes passed away, the next generation of alderman attempted to make Miss Emily once again pay her taxes. They met no success in doing so and did nothing further. The same was so when Miss Emily bought arsenic. The pharmacist requested a reason for buying it, but without an answer, he let Miss Emily do as she pleased. When a disgusting odor came from Miss Emilys House, instead of telling her to fix the problem and hurt her pride, four men attempted to fix it themselves in secret. Overall Miss Emily answered to no one. The information that we do have about Miss Emilys genuinely mysterious life was obtained through her prying neighbors. They did everything possible, without disrespect, to find out more about her. They knew where she had been, with whom, and when. The secrecy of Miss Emilys life fascinated everyone that knew her. The more that time went on and the more that neighbors pried, the less Miss Emily appeared until soon she was hardly seen at all and let no one into her home. Even at Miss Emilys funeral the whole town came to satisfy some of their curiosity. Miss Emily seemed to enjoy being secretive and did her best to be so.