The Significance of the Townspeople and Emilys Father in A Rose for Em

A necrophiliac is described as a person who has an obsessive fascination with death and corpses (Mifflin 1). Emily, a necrophiliac in the story, A Rose for Emily, is a deranged, lost, and confused wo human being. A story filled with many another(prenominal) symbols that help the stories intend. The only man Emily knew growing up was her father. He taught her to presumption no man, and no man would ever be good for her. He was highly favored through the town and everyone looked to him. The small town of left over(p) and nosey tribe makes the story of A Rose for Emily. The towns people are curious to know Emilys every step, or wondering what she is going to do next, her appearance, and where the horrible smell in her post comes from. She meets a man in this small town and they become lovers. She thus kills him with rat poisoning and sleeps with him every night until finally her time is up and everybody in her town finds out the real truth. Through out the entire story of A Rose for Emily no one ever knows who the people are in her town and we never find out in that location duration, size, color, and whether or not they personally know Emily or not. They are dear townspeople, townspeople who gossip. We only know what the people are saying close her and how judgmental they are being through out the whole story. correspond to Faulkner, in his Short Story Criticism he says,Miss Emily unendingly for fifty or sixty years they are anonymous townspeople, for neither names nor sexes nor occupations are given(p) or hinted at and they seem to be nave watchers, for they speak as though they did not understand the meaning of events at the time they occurred. Further, they are of undetermined age. By details given the story there neither older nor younger nor of the same age as Miss Em... ...again, her hair was cut short, making her look deal a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows- sort of tragic and serene (Faulkner 31). Emily father was highly favored in the town. Faulkner writes in his Short Story Criticism, The Griersons have always been high and mighty, somehow above the gross, teeming world. Emilys father was well view and occasionally loaned the town money. That made her a wealthy child and she essentially had everything a child wanted. Emilys father was a very practiced man and Emilys mind was violated by her fathers strict mentality. After Emilys father being the only man in her life, he dies and she find it hard to let go of him. Because of her father, she possess a stubborn outlook on life and how thing should be. She a good deal secluded her self from society for the remainder of her life.