A Rose For Emily Tradition Analysis

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Once a tradition is being broken people will tend to hold on and fight for what they believe in until they actually have to give in. This is made clear in “A Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner it begins with the death of Miss Emily Grierson, living in the South in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The story continues to go back in time and shows how Emily's struggles to move on in her life as a lonely and poor woman left broke by her father, who sent suitors away from his overprotected daughter. She is no longer the young Emily, she has yet to break her traditions and start living the present but she is hesitant and no one can convince her as much as the town tries. She has a difficult time accepting the fact that times have changed. In “A Rose For Emily,” Faulkner illustrates how Emily refuses to accept change with her fathers death, her lover being …show more content…
"See Colonel Sartoris." "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" (100) She did not care because her father had made a deal with Colonel years back. They make unsuccessful attempts to get Emily to resume payments. The town is tired of her but will not tell her anything to her face the judge has received complaints he also said, “I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something" (100). They would take matters into there own hands because Miss Emily would be the “old grouchy lady” of the town that no one wanted to bother. The last decade of her life she did not leave the house, “The front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good” (104). That was the last of her that the town saw of her she did not want to face reality because she knew the town was talking bad about her. As well as she did not want to leave Homer or the memories she had in that house. This all comes back to her not wanting to move on with her life and wanting to change her
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