Rose for Emily
William Faulkners "A Rose for Emily" depicts Emily Grierson as being literally crazy. ... We have to remember that after her father death Emily became penniless, something she was not used to. ... We live in a stressful society everyday and Faulkner just makes one see that Emily was a product of an earlier era that encompassed reminders of the past. ... Emily was like that. ... Emily continued to think this way. ... This can be shown by the way the aldermen rose for her when they visited. ... Ordinarily, one would not have been able to purchase this, but with Emilys power and family authority, the druggist was persuaded by Emily to sell her the arsenic. It is as if all the rules were broken for Emily. ... This being known to Emily probably caused her to kill him. ... After Emily killed Homer she started to change.