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A 3 page paper which discusses the insanity of Emily in William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily. No additional sources cited.
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many ways. Emily is a woman whose life is told in the story, and while the narrator presents a sympathetic look at the woman and the apparent life she led,
there are also subtle hints that aside from having lived a life of oppression she was also a woman who was insane. The following paper examines how Emily can be
perceived as insane in Faulkners story. Insanity: A Rose for Emily The story of Emily does not progress from her youth
to her death, but rather offers up varying points in her life, points that go back and forth in time. One could argue that this is perhaps a way to
confuse, and entice the reader, and a very subtle way of demonstrating a sense of insanity. In one of first encounters with Emily, for example, she is already old and
she is seen as less than aware of reality. The towns officials are concerned that she has not paid her taxes and
at one point one of them, the Mayor, writers her a letter with the bill. He "received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin,
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Emily is a woman who confines herself
to her house, perhaps agoraphobic, wherein she is afraid to leave. The condition of the paper indicates a sense of insanity as well for it is old and thus indicates
that she clearly lives in isolation as well as perhaps the past. This is further seen when the men come to her house and they note the smell: "It smelled
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