From the short story A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily Grierson was an only daughter and we only see that she grew up with only a father figure, we can only assume that because we did not hear anything about her mother throughout the story. The physical description of Emily and the house she lived in suggests that she was a dark and mysterious person. The narrator which seems to be the whole town not one person started the story with Miss Emily Grierson's death. The pity and curiosity of the town is shown by the narrator "our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house"(Faulkner Paragraph 1). .

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             Emily Grierson first appeared to be just a depressed woman who was lonely at the beginning of the story. The narrator goes into detail about Emily - greeting her neighbors at the door, denying her father was dead, and continuing to do so for three days - clearly showed that evidently she was insane and was greatly attached to her father. Her attempt of a happy life with Homer Barron deeply failed her, the narrator did not give us the reason to why she murdered the one man she was in love with but we can only assume the reason to being her being terrified of him leaving her and wanting to keep him around. This at the end we found out she had his dead body lying in her bed for unknown numbers of years. .

             Figure of speech is used through out to entail a horrid tone. Like in the first description we got of Miss Emily when the aldermen came to visit her about her taxes, she was "bloated, like body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue". This association of Emily to a drowned body makes us think that she was already dead inside. The house she lived in was stuck in time where the world outside had changed. The dust found pretty much every where around the house and the door being forced open to the room where she kept Homer Barron's body "a thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie".