The Story of Emily Grierson: Crazy or Just Lonely? In the story "A Rose for Miss Emily", William Faulkner paints a picture for the reader about a woman of gentile birth who is scarred by her father's strict mentality. The story takes place in Oxford, Mississippi after the civil war. Faulkner describes Emily's reclusion to her home that turns out to be the gruesome truth for all of the townspeople's sympathetic curiosity. Miss Emily was …showed first 75 words of 543 total…

…showed last 75 words of 543 total…of Miss Emily were all laid to rest. In a room that had been closed off for over forty years lay the decayed body of Homer Barron. Rather than have complete abandonment, she chose to keep her love with her permentaly by poisoning him and keeping him with her in death, as she couldn't in life. Faulkner shows the tragedy that results from the seclusion of a young woman that only wanted someone to love.