A Rose for Emily is the story of a young lady living in a very conservative society after the death of her father. Emily's; life is marked by an excessive negative influence of her father during her young age. While her father was alive Emily was not allowed to have any friend. And after the death of her father she is left alone by the community in her big house without any support. So when she met and fall in love with a young man named Hommer, she did give any considerations to all the critics made by the community about her relationship with Hommer. She kept seeing him even so they think that it is sinful relationship.

When Hommer disappears the community seems in on hand happy of the end of that sinful relationship and in the other sad for seeing Emily alone again. Emily after that kept herself away from the community and stayed in her big house closing her door to every body.

Knight begin his interpretation of the cause of Emily's behavior with the fact that "circumstances in their upbringing inhibit their sexual (growth) maturation and result in disturbed behavior." As example he gives us the fact that the father-daughter bond is seen like a 'tableau' by the town folks. " Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background her father straddled silhouette in the foreground his back to her and clutching a horse whip, the two of them framed by the back flung front door.(P437)"

It's only after the death of Emily that people realize how crazy she was when they discover the body of Hommer lying on a bed dead with gray hair. So in order not to be alone again, Emily decide to kill her lover and keep him with her forever and get away with that murder.

According to Knight, the two protagonist of William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" is a mature woman from the semi-rural town of Jefferson, Mississipi who lived her youth under watch of her over protecting father. Following her father's death, the youg Emily withdraw from the world, and spend her remaining years shut away in the big house she inherited.(P328).

Speaker relates this tale of necrophilia in an attempt to vindicate Southern womanhood."

In his essay, Jean O'Bryan Knight compare two American tragedy from either side of the Rio Grande and have found profound parallel between the two.(P344). In this comparison Knight gives us a very accurate criticism of the story "A Rose for Emily".

Faulkner simply lists such a series of adjectives as if to say, "Take your choice of these, I don't care." So for Davis, Faulkner did not want to give the reader a character with a personality already set by him but let them make their opinion about it with the information available in the story.

In this essay, William V. Davis makes an original interpretation of the story "A Rose For Emily" by Faulkner. David assess in order for a better understanding of Faulkner's story it has to be divided in five different parts with respect to time. As Davis says, "the first and last section having to do with the present, the now of the narration, with the middle sections detailing the past." Indeed, A Rose For Emily" is for Davis a story about a woman Miss Emily in this case trying to resist the changes and the modification due to the passage of time. The character of Miss Emily is like a child who did not want to become adult according to Davis interpretation. As he says "In terms of life and existence, Miss Emily's past and her passages through and within time are "inescapable"; her struggles against time are of no avail."

She even refuses to pay taxes and give any consideration to the value of the society: the smell of her house for example.

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