Throughout Emily′s life, death has always been close to her. With her assumed mother′s death, father′s death, and lover′s death the narrator′s perspective shows how her fixation on death and attachment issues progressively gets worse. In William Faulkner′s story ″A Rose for Emily″, the author utilizes Emily′s character in order to shed light to the audience on the psychological effects of death and how detrimental coping mechanisms impact one′s life. -it needs to be at least 1500 words Prompt: What does William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” imply about the relationship between past and present, illusion and reality, permanence and change, as well as death and life? Is the story an indictment of the decadent values of the aristocratic Old South, or is it a defense of these values (embodied in Emily) against the callousness of the North (embodied in Homer)? (Another possible topic for this story is to do a psychological analysis of Emily Grierson in which you identify the factors that contributed to her insanity.)
