'A Rose for Emily: Themes\r'

' girlfriend Emily Grierson is a character that stands out in the minds of about Ameri alonet ends.  Almost either American belles-lettres teachers and professors have assigned A bloom for Emily by William Faulkner to students for generations. The report of young woman Emily has delighted readers to the point that most will neer forget her or her story.They feeling meritless for her because they collar a woman so greatly by her confederacy that she is determined to do appalling acts.  Faulkner captures his readers with three study themes of obsession, changes in the community, and the circumstance of the time period.Obsessions can be dangerous and in the story A Rose for Emily obsessions lead to decease and destruction.  Her father and fraternity have sunk escape Emily.  Her father is obsessed with preserving his girl from the world.None of the young men were quite pricey enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long musical theme of them as a tableau ; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung antecedent door. (Faulkner)He was so fixated on keeping her to himself that he ruined the chances of her finding love and marriage, which is what family expected her to do to Society was as well obsessed with the idea that all women should follow and become the property of her husband.So when she got to be cardinal and was noneffervescent single, we were non pleased exactly, unless vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldnt have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized. (Faulkner)Miss Emily had lost her chances and was beyond retrieving them by the time that her father died.  She was a woman without a man to take supervise of her, which was an obsession of society.The people of the town feel sorry for her because she has not married, yet when sh e starts to see bell ringer Baron, the Yankee day jack who is passing through the town repayable to a job, they criticize Miss Emily because of the centering that she conducts herself.  Because of their view of the obsession, she could do no right.Times change and there is nothing that anyone can do about it.  However, there are perpetually those who get leftfield behind when measure do change.  Miss Emily is a hone example of a person who is left by time.  She cannot understand that the names that were at one time so prominent are immediately just names in the muniment of the town.  The former mayor who had remitted her taxationes because of her family name did not have the same values of the spic-and-span generation.When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this agreement created both(prenominal) little dissatisfaction. On the outgrowth of the year they mailed her a tax notice. (Faulkner)The new generation wante d to demo her when a rancid reek demonstrable at her home, but the older alderman contrasted them, who were still dictated by the high-flown names.  Had the newer generation been allowed to investigate, a murder susceptibility have been solved and justice served.The setting and time period was explored by Faulkner as one who lived in the culture.  The setting is Jefferson Mississippi, which is in the Deep South during the early digress of the 20th century.  The south is known for its daring society.  These ways may seem romantic, but it can also lead to some being held back.Miss Emily was a perfect example. Her life was dictated to her by this society that was still reeling from the Civil War.  In the early twentieth century south when family names were important, laws were unnoted just because of who a person was.  Miss Emily was not expected to pay taxes, did not have to follow health codes when it came to the smell that developed at her home, and she was sold ratsbane without signing for it just because of who she was.A middle or lower class person would not have gotten away with any of the things that Miss Emily did. Had it been someone rather than Miss Emily, Homer Barron would still be alive and if she had someways still managed to murder him, she was have been caught and brought to justice.Miss Emily would not have been so condemned by her society when Homer left her, but since it make her feel that she was less of a person, she matt-up that she had to make him pay.  Even though southerly society is not something that everyone can identify, A Rose for Emily makes the reader evaluate the society in which they live.\r\n'