In the story “A Rose for Emily”, Miss Emily, because she was borne as a woman, was raised to be an obsessive isolationist. Her father disallowed her to be anything more than an archetype of what a woman should be like, in his views. Her family butler remained the faithful but stoic supporter who follows her in whatever her endeavors might be but does not outright do anything more. The villagers came to become the impassive and neutral spectator that gossips from afar. Because of these conditions all being set next to each together, Miss Emily becomes deluded with her current life being her everything and does not want any of it to change. This obsession causes her to become an isolationist to the fellow townsman.
The timeframe that the story…show more content… support from friends and family is crucial” (Singer 7) Because Homer Barron was the first person to truly become something akin to a friend for Miss Emily, who only had two other close relationships with any others, her father and her butler, Miss Emily’s viewpoint of the world is changed by him. Homer Barron succeeded in getting Miss Emily to leave her little bubble of safety when he befriends her and changes her view of her own little world. Now, instead of what father would do and the house, her view becomes wider as options like what I should do and the shops in town opens up to her. Thanks to him, she slowly digresses from her isolation and goes to town more often, that is, until he probably told her he has to leave. Even though she has experience change, Miss Emily herself still objects to change. This includes the fact that Homer Barron is leaving, because if he leaves, then things would change again. Miss Emily did what she did best and followed what she has done most of her life, blockade off others, now including Homer’s thoughts of leaving. She will make him stay and with his introducing her to a bigger world, she now has ways to do so. Her world became bigger but it did not change. She still did not want it to change so she isolated herself within the slightly bigger world. She was raised since young into isolation, she will stay in isolation. In conclusion, Miss Emily was raised to become an isolationist. She wants to stay within
