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A Rose Called Insanity

A Rose Called Insanity
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” focuses on Miss Emily Grierson, a distraught women who seems to have lost control of her own mind. While “A Rose for Emily” is just a story, psychoanalysists go so far as to question Miss Emily, as well as Faulkner’s psychological state of mind. According to Michael Meyer, “Psychological approaches to literature draw on Freud’s theories and other psychological theories to understand more fully the text, the writer, and the reader” (1510). With the help of psychological theorists such as Sigmund Freud, more can be seen in the story of Miss Emily. Psychological analysis of literature helps the reader to better understand the work and its author.
Miss Emily is portrayed as having control over everything in her life. She doesn’t have to pay taxes, she doesn’t have to give a reason for buying arsenic, and no one could even face her to tell her that her house smelt bad. Miss Emily is a strong cha...

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