Who is Emily Grierson and why does she act the way that she does?

Who is Emily Grierson and why does she act the way that she does?

William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ is a wonderfully written short story of the life of Emily Grierson. To understand this eerie tale we must not only try to understand Emily, but we also must try to understand her upbringing and her setting. In this story the setting becomes more than place or time, it becomes one of the main characters. In this paper I would like to clarify who exactly Emily Grierson is and why she carries out the actions that she does.
Who is Emily Grierson? To me, and I’m sure many others, Emily is a woman stuck in time, constrained by her surroundings and her upbringings. To truly understand Emily we must look at her upbringing by her father and at her surroundings.
Emily was brought up in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. She was brought up in the Confederate era where her family name, Grierson, was very highly recognized. Emily was watched by the whole town, I su...