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A Rose for Emily Adapting to Change William Faulkner examines the theme of adapting to change in “A Rose for Emily.” In the story, Emily Grierson lives a life almost completely free of change. The people around her have taken control of her life, leaving her confused about making a life of her own. Emily allows herself to become trapped from reality. Instead of facing reality, some people find it easier to trick the mind, never adjusting to change. Faulkner shows that people caught in controlling relationships will have a hard time adjusting to change, leaving them lonely and with a loss of reality. Faulkner explains that victims of controlling life styles have a hard time adapting to change. Emily allowed her father and other people in her community to control her. Throughout her life, the town’s people described Emily as a “hereditary obligation upon the town”, almost as though she owed them her life (81). After the death of her father, the town believed she wanted to “cling” to him because she had allowed him to be the only man in her life (84). It is expected that we would want to hold on to emily, people, life, change, reality, father, because, dead, body, 84, town’s, death, controlling, control, become, around, actions, accept, out, man, live, homer, faulkner, 83, unable, town, time, story, over, lonely, house, evans, emily’s, community, been