A Rose For Emily Character Essay

Character of Emily Rose
In Faulkner’s “A story of a Rose”, Emily’s character is made in several ways. Her character is shown in the condition of her surroundings and her physical appearance. Also, Emily is portrayed as cold and reclusive through her dealings with other people. Faulkner also shows that she is out of touch with the changing times. And finally, her decay is complete after her death.
Emily’s character is reflected upon by the condition of her surroundings and her physical appearance.   Ray B. West Jr. quotes in his essay saying, “When she was young and part of the world with which she was contemporary, she was, we are told, “a slender figure in white” (West 2).   Faulkner also says that “her hair was cut short and, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows” (Faulkner 97).   Later in the story, after Emily had grown older she is said as having “grown fat and her hair was turning gray” (Faulkner 100).   Donald Akers wrote in his essay that “Emily is quickly established as a strange character when the alderman enter her decrepit parlor in a futile attempt to collect her taxes.   She is described as looking “…bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue” (Akers 1).   She had quit taking care of herself and had no concern with her appearance by that time.   At one time Emily’s house was described as “a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been their most select street” (Faulkner 93).   Over time Emily’s house became stagnant and dusty and it also reflected the state of her mind.   Faulkner speaks of the state of Emily’s house as “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores” (Faulkner 94).     It is also
The way Emily dealt with the people around her and in her...