This Victorian-era house exhibits Emily’s character as Emily Grison is described as a stereotypical Southern.

In A Rose for Emily William Faulkner creates a narrative that requires the reader to go on a quest in this house to understand the main protagonists. Therefore, her house represents this era when she had control over her life. Emily’s reality is affected by inability to cope with the death of her father. She sees no reason to pay taxes as her father basically founded this town. Miss Emily was stuck in the past when her family used to have a significant role over the functions of this town. She became a hermit who increased her distance from this community. She had cut off ties from everyone after the death of her father. Emily is closed off from the community, and only after her death does they get a chance to know how she was by exploring her house. It’s up to the reader to use Emily’s possessions to interpret her character and personality. The reader is forced to know Emily through her house. This dedication is facilitated architecture of her house that is representative of the reality she occupied.įaulkner narrows the view of his reader as Emily death restricts the reader from understanding Emily through her actions. Faulkner makes Emily and her house the same thing and this facilitate the deduction that she is an individual who is stuck in the past. The investigation of this house would answer the questions that these people had about Emily. The exploration of this house gives these people a chance to understand this eccentric neighbor. Her death opens her house to this community that is curious as they try to peel back the veil that she lived in. Therefore, the only way one can understand this character is through the items she lives behind after her demise. Faulkner narrows the view of this character as the reader encounters this character after her death. In A Rose for Emily Faulkner’s main protagonist is portrayed as a woman who defined herself through her earthly possessions.

A rose for emily narrator point of view