In the story “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, the reader recognizes the harsh reality of a woman's inability to open up to a new and ever-changing world world. Emily Grierson is a lonely and mysterious woman, who lives with her father in a large post-war house. Emily's father was a controlling man and would send away any man who tried to woo Emily. All Emily inherited after her father's death was the house. Yet the city felt it had the right to "hold on to what robbed it." (Faulkner 311) Things started to look better for Emily when she met a handsome Northerner. Homer Barron was the leader of a Northern work crew. The crew was hired to pave sidewalks in Jefferson. Homer and Emily begin seeing each other on Sundays, riding around in a "yellow-wheeled buggy." (Faulkner 311) Homer appears to be light and durable. His interest in Miss Emily is strange because her personality and his are extremely different. «He soon knew everyone in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughter everywhere in the square, Homer Barron was in the center of the group. "(Faulkner 311) Homer makes friends easily and loves to be the center of attention. The town gossiped about the marriage between the Northerner and Miss Emily. One day Miss Emily went to the general store to buy poison. Many believed that she would committed suicide. Homer is then seen entering Emily's house late one night and is never seen again. Everyone in town assumed that Homer had left Emily and gone back up north. After that, Emily stays at her house and is not seen often he ages with time and dies. At his funeral, the curious townspeople find Homer Barron's decomposed body in a bed upstairs and a long piece of... half paper... fitting snugly to the side good of humanism when she was finally humanized after her father's death. Although Emily seems lonely and stubborn, she takes on a completely new character once the story ends. "We didn't say she was crazy then." author basically says that Emily wasn't considered crazy until Homer Barron's body was found in her bed upstairs. He realizes something was wrong with Emily. By connecting the dots, the reader can discover that Miss Emily was mentally unstable. Emily's general upbringing with respect for tradition, her father's controlling behavior, and her inability to become self-sufficient and face death lead to her mental instability. Works Cited Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "A rose for Emily." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 5th ed. New York: WW Norton &, 2011. 308-315 pages. Press.