A Rose for Emily and creepiness on the side

In the short, fictional story, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, we meet in a past time, around the 1800s, with a town that is more than just curious. In the story, we find ourselves being narrated by the Jefferson town about Emily's past life as they make their way to her house to give their respects to her death. When it comes to time significance, the narration of time from the city seems to not be consecutively, but disordered. They go back from the past, to the present, then back to the past but in different times, making time seem not organized but a bit perplexing. As the story goes on, we seem to find that the distortion of time is very vital as we come to the end. With all of the mixing clues that appear by the present and past flashes, we come to a discovery of what led to the disappearance of Homer as well as why Emily lost the touch of reality. Therefore, time might have been a bit confusing at first, but in the end it all made sense. It gave the reader the fundamentals to understand why certain problems and results occurred.

As the analysis of the story went on, I discovered that time wasn't acceptable by Emily. Emily was raised and sheltered for so long, that time wasn't her responsibility. Due to her father's controlling problem as well as her extreme nurture, she found herself in a life where she was always protected, as well as always under someone else's control. When her farther passes away, we seem to find Emily in a bit of a problem. Even though time has taken her father, she can't comprehend or accept that he is gone. So, she keeps the corpse for three days while denying to the towns people that her farther is not dead, but still living. After her breakdown, we see that she doesn't due well with change that time causes, showing that she isn't capable of surviving dramatic changes in her life. Therefore, a huge theme that is witnessed is change versus tradition. Her "culture" was to do what her farther said was best. When that "culture" was taken away, she didn't know how to react, thus that led to her insanity of not letting go of her dead father.
As we keep reading, we see that her town is becoming more modern as new positions take over the city. Once again, due to Emily's new, uncontrollable freedom, she can't accept her outside improvements. She, in some part of the story, cannot fathom the existence of numbers being bolted to her house to give her an address. Of course, she can't accept it because there isn't a figure to help her understand. Also, her mind is so stuck in the past that she is completely ignorant to concentrate herself in a new, modern world.

When Homer Barron is introduced in the story, we seem to find a bit of hope for Emily to change for the better, but unfortunately, that isn't the case. Homer isn't a man to sit down and call himself a husband. He is more of a ladies man that can only handle manly jobs. But Emily, of course not equipped with the knowledge of how to handle men, finds herself buying arsenic and poisoning the man in order for him to not run away and in order to keep him for herself forever. Before poisoning him, we read on to find that she buys nice clothes for him and matching appliances as well as marital belongings, which don't really fit with the character of Homer. Later we find these belongings and appliances in the room Homer was found, which shows that Emily made her own world in that room. Time stood still while she laid next to the corpse of Homer in the same bed. She had full control this time, as well as control on time. While the town complained about Emily and the smell, she would lay happily merry next to her dead corpse. Also, as she laid with her corpse, time would persist, but she would stay constant to her traditions, ignoring what changes her surroundings adapted to.