William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
“A Rose of Emily” refers to Faulkner’s short story that reveals the relationship between Miss Emily and her father, and this forms the primary focus of the story. Her reaction to the death of her father depicts the kind of relationship that existed between the two. All the town people were very sorry for Emily’s loss of her father. Others thought that she was just finding it difficult to let go of her father. The story focuses on the struggle and denial the woman faces after the death of her father.
Emily struggles to accept that her father is dead and the fact that she has very little left to survive on makes it even harder. It is a story that makes be recognize with Emily following the death of my father five years back. It is never easy to lose ones strong hold to death and the reality comes with so many challenges to bear in life. The evidence is in the trauma Emily faces to an extent that people feel that she would lose her mind. It leads her to start a relationship with Homer Brown. Emily is looking for a figure that can fill up the void left by her father. She needs to have someone she can rely on and that is something that many people do.
The problem with such rebound relationship is that they never fulfill the intentions and when Emily kills her lover, she still cannot let go of his body. She still needs a physical body to reckon with in the midst of her loss. The story depicts a tone of terror, gloom and understated violence. It leaves Emily struggling with her loneliness and I find it just natural that the only thing that could rescue her from all that horror was her death.
