"A Rose for Emily"

Faulkner’s use of characterization plays an extremely important role in his short story, “A Rose for Emily”. It is clear to the readers that Miss Emily Grierson is the protagonist or the principle character. Emily is a gothic character. That is because of the fact that she slept with a skeleton of her lover Homer Barron for forty years. She was awfully stubborn in the opinion of the townspeople. This stubbornness also ties into Emily’s ability to live in reality. After she refused to pay her taxes, directly to the mayor, she tells them to go see Colonel Satoris , who has been dead for ten years. This portrays Emilys illusion of reality was greatly distorted. Miss Emily was motivated by her lover, Homer, she isolated herself in an old decaying house and she refused to recognize that time had passed. Emily was proud, disdainful and seemingly independent. This shows the importance of characterization. Without these characters, the story would be radically changed. When the reader...