What they say affects our understanding

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What They Say Affects our Understanding

The short story , A Rose for Emily , speaks of the life of a woman who was caught in the past and refused to participate in the change Written by the award-winning Southerner author , William Faulkner , the story revolves on the different aspects of being the only daughter of a small town pillar . The story presented how somebody like Emily Grierson an epitome of an individual caught in the past , lived with only her pride and loneliness in an enclosed

world , and remained envied by women and admired by men . It showed how the very things that people see as another person 's weakness may become strength as in the case of the author

An Epitome of the Unmoved

There are instances when people are left trying to relive the past over and over again in their own personal ways . This is oftentimes done in to maintain one 's sanity or to keep a memory that only during that moment can be left real . In the case of Emily Grierson , both may have been the reason to exhaust all means to remain in that certain period in her life

She exhibited the seeming obsession to retain her past many times in the story . Initially , through keeping her father 's corpse in the house , by staying indoors from then on , and even after her death , she proved to have stopped time at some point as the townspeople discovered the rotten body...