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 referred to as a spinster by locals who, after disappearing behind the closed door of her childhood home, was the subject of speculation and gossip to everyone who had known her. …