A Rose for Emily

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William Faulkner a man from the south with very little education became one of the most famous southern writers of his time. He wrote the story, “A Rose for Emily,” that contained one of the strangest characters I have ever encountered in a story. This character is Emily Grierson who lived in Mississippi, which was where Faulkner was from. Emily Grierson is viewed an anomaly for her gender and time period. An anomaly is one that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify.
The social life, and social status of Emily Grierson is one way that she is so different from any woman. Emily is looked at as a very powerful woman due to the prestige of her father who was a war veteran. She lives in a very nice house that had at one point been on a very select street. She is looked at very highly from other people’s views, and she knows that she has power. The woman refuses to pay taxes to the town of Jefferson. “Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff…I have no taxes in Jefferson.” (Page 31) She believes that she doesn’t have to pay because of her father who has been past away for ten years. When her father did die, Emily did not want to dispose of the body. She kept telling the ministers that her father was not dead. In her mind, she tells the men who came to collect the taxes to see Colonel Sartoris. Obviously, she is so deranged to believe these men can go talk to her father, and that she is so powerful she doesn’t have to pay taxes.
The social life that Emily does not have. She has not let anyone into her house in years. The only person who really saw the inside of her house was the manservant, and Homer Barron who wishes he probably never did. That is no way for any person to live. People need to interact and see other people because it is essential for a healthy life. The poor woman didn’t have any friends to come to her house, or anywhere for her to go. Along came this Negro man ...