a rose for emily

A Rose for Emily William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily demonstrates that seclusion causes the inability to form relationships and people to go crazy. Emily turns psychotic after her father’s death and cannot form a relationship with anyone. As a young adult, Miss Emily was very lonely. Her father would drive away all of her suitors. Because of her father doing this Emily never learned how to form a relationship with …

…he could never leave her, and she would be able to stay with someone who she loved. She had insecurity. She acted as if death did not exist, as though she could retain her unfaithful lover by poisoning him and holding his physical self-prisoner in a world, which had all of the appearances of reality except for that, most necessary of all things. This proved that Miss Emily’s father caused her to be crazy.