Arose for Emily / William Faulkner

A rose for Emily is a creepy story about a creepy lady.  She is the crazy lady of the town but was not originally thought as such.  She is a woman living in the wrong time period. She did grow up in the correct on but time just speed right past her.  She does not except the changes of the modern times.  She lives in the past and rarely leaves her house.  “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894” (Faulkner 282).  This quote shows how the town had to support her but also that they really did not care for her.  They left her to do what she would like even if it did not fallow what the norm of society does.  The word alive in this sentence goes along with a latter word of then in another sentence.  These words show how the town’s perceptions of her changed over time.  They originally thought she was just grieving her father but it eventually turned into insanity.  They left her to do what she wanted and gave her some respect but when she died they promptly were willing to bury her and be done with her peculiar ways.