A_Rose_For_Emily

A Rose For Emily Time Throughout the story “A Rose For Emily” William Faulkner uses different people, places, and things to validate his continuous southern themes. Faulkner’s themes are that nobody shall control our lives except ourselves and that traditions are difficult to change and let go of. “A Rose for Emily” communicates that when we let other people control our lives we can end up very lonely and sad. There are two things that happen as a result of this concept. The first thing that can occur is a loss of one’s self and value. The second thing that occurs is that the controlling factor will gain a sense of power and will eventually want to control you entire life if you let them. This kind of domination can occur in our lives at anytime; it could happen between friends, husband and wife, siblings, and a parent and child. As in Emily’s case, a child does not willing give up their freedom of choice to their parents but rather it is taken when they are young. This happens because when children are young they need the guidance of their parents wisdom and knowledge. They are not emily, even, traditions, story, southern, lives, let, past, control, because, young, rose, power, old, newer, miss, grew, generation, child, town, though, things, thing, themes, taxes, taking, shall, result, refuses, refused, rather, present, place, people, pay