A Rose For Emily

Circumstantial Victim
Miss Emily Grierson, a small southern town recluse, was a victim of circumstances. Many situations throughout her lonesome life provided for her abnormal ways. The inability to socialize and culturalize in society placed her at a disadvantage to grow and develop as a human being. Her father, the community, and Homer Barron played significant roles in her downward fall into her making her isolated “big, squarish frame…on the most select street”(p.75) house an asylum for uncommon madness.
Mr. Grierson, a civil war hero, was the barrier that ostracized Emily from the rest of the Jefferson society in the early years of her life. The townspeople relate to the situation Mr. Grierson has placed Emily as “ Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background , her father a straddled silhouette in the foreground , his back to her and clutching his horsewhip.”( 77) He not only shuts her off from ...