This is a brief analysis of A Rose for Emily

Emily had trouble letting go of her loved ones in the short story and due to this insecurity, she went mad in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. After her father passed away, the thought of strangers coming to take her father away from her was too much for her to handle. "Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them …

…several weeks. After a few weeks, carcasses stop smelling. The lime the "burglars" put on the ground had really not done anything for the smell. "Four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars...They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings"(427). She was definitely medically crazy for killing her love with rat poison and sleeping next to him every night after he died.