A Rose for Emily Case

A ROSE FOR EMILY

Emily is a character who left in my mind many impression. Compare with character Mathilde Loisel, Emily was in a complicated circumstance. The setting of the story – years in Civil War, her noble family with hereditary obligation and gossips in town – build a statue of Emily which make people never forget. A woman always carries her head high enough, self-opinionated but also make people feel grief for her choices and her life.

Emily was bring up in a noble family, that is the reason why she is proud of herself. Moreover, it is the way her father teach her to make her can keep her head high. We can see this strong characteristic in many situation. For example when the aldermen visits her house two times, he always go back without having any agreement in tax and smell. Another example is: “ Miss Emily just stares at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up.” However, how much strong people is, there is still a fragile period. That when Emily‘s father died. If Emily were a normal girl, she would burst into tear or do something like a girl when lost dear parent. But no, she refused all and said that her father was not dead for three days. When minister uses law and force, as narrator said: “ She broke down.” No many words used to describe Emily in this time, but we all know that it likes a turning-point in her life. No one know how she felt when her father driven away all young men around her. Maybe she understand thoroughly what is suitable alliance and accept it. She believe in what her father arranged for her, so her father died that means all collapse. Certainly, Emily can guess what is waiting for her and her refutation in her father’s death is as the last hope that something was wrong and everything will come usual in tomorrow.