The Power of Adversity - A Rose for Emily

The era in which a womanhood lives defines, in part, who she develops and the potential challenges she may experience. During the shoes American Civil fight era, the South, desperate for something to cling to afterward losing the war, becomes fixated on upholding tradition and both men and women are fudgeled by the expectations of these traditions. Unfortunately, some traditions can become so regimented that they adversely restrict a womans efficiency to thrive and develop into a stable and content individual. In the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, Faulkner develops the musical theme that adverse conditions such as rigid controlling social expectations and a lack of make love and close personal consanguinitys may cause a woman to be shaped into the very images she tries to avoid; that of an oppressive, delusional and unprofitable person. Emily Grierson is subjected to an adverse bread and butter with a traditional father who controls every aspect of h er existence. She lives a manners devoid of love and all knowledge of the nuances of relationships. When he dies she in the long run has the opportunity to take control of her own destiny with the disaster of love, but unfortunately the rigor of her liveness has shaped her into a delusional woman, who like her father, must(prenominal) oppress other heap and deceive them in cabaret to maintain a relationship with them.\nEmily Grierson, the protagonist, is a woman who lives her life according to the traditions and expectations created by a society shaped by the post-Civil War era. Ladies of this era were wanted and protected but too powerless to men who were considered superior. repayable to their upper class the populate of Jefferson think of Emily and her father as the high and mighty Griersons(Faulkner 153). What should eat up been an ideal life of wealth, power, and pleasure becomes a rigidly controlled life under the oppressive demands of her father. comparable oth er young ladies of her era, Emily was destined to have a venerable life being ...