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A Rose of Emily
The story “A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner which describes
the life of South America in the early 20th century. The story shows the attitude of the women
during the prescribed period. It shows the description of the social structure of the South American
society. The author has managed to express the changes which influenced the lives of the people
in social activities like a desire for marriages. The women in such society during such days were
underprivileged rights and freedoms where they were tangibly and passionately restrained. The
various gender strategies were applicable in the story in such society (Faulkner 200). The claim I
want to make in this paper is about the gender strategy as applied in the story a rose for Emily
focusing on desire to get married, the town outlook on her lifestyle and decline of her house.
There are various ways in which gender strategies in the text is presented. One, desire of
Miss Emily to get married. The desire of Emily of getting married is not achieved because of the
noble position and expectations of the community do not condone marriage since her lovely father
cannot get a good lover for his only noble daughter. Social concepts destroy the hopes for Emily
pleasure as well as makes her life to be meaningless. At the end of the story, the forces from
society does not let Emily admit that, Homer her lover has left her and thus, she ends up killing
him. The relations with her father shows the power of males the society. The author says” Miss
Emily is a slender shape in a white contextual, her own dad straddle shape with foreground, his

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back to her as well as grasping a horsewhip” (Faulkner 69). This shows an appropriate description
of the kind of association between Miss Emily and his biological father.
Two, the single woman in the story have a lot of challenges in changing the society
because of her noble life. Men in that society are protectors and leaders of the family. They took
part in decision making and at sometimes they decided what women should do as the way the
father of Emily did. The duties given to women are decreased so as to take care of the families
and make good conditions for their men. In addition, male made tough norms and rules that
women had to adhere to (Faulkner 100). For instance, the society began to fierce oppression to
Emily in order to construct an association with Baron since it was not good for the aristocratic
range. Many people in this kind of this society think that Emily has fallen and thus they are waiting
for her to fall on the public. A number of individuals, particularly the women wishes to demise the
others females.
Three, gender strategy is seen on outlook of the lifestyles of Emily. In the town, Miss Emily
is secretive and is an object of pity. She is also highly respected before the death of her father.
Immediately after the death of her father, she becomes a source of gossip to the people because
of lack of husband and being poor women (Faulkner70). Emily is among one of the oldest citizens
in the town. Her life has been mostly kept secretive from the other people by his biological father.
After the death of her father, Emily was unstable emotionally. This is because she did not want to
allow the body of her father to go.

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In the story rose for Emily, the issues of patriarchal chauvinism have prevailed heavily.
This was seen where the father had the authority to decide every concern in the family. The author
undertook the society of the South America as an influential traditional, family-centered where it
had noticeably social roles. In a South American society in the early 19th century women suffered
discrimination. According to Faulkner (200), men were powerful in making the decisions in the
family where women had to accept. There was no opposition which was directed to the father
during these days. Due to that, the desire of the women to get married was decreased. This can be
depicted in the lives of Miss Emily who has remained to be a spinster and stays under the shadow
of her father.
The issue of the womanhood is emphasized in the story arose for Emily. The society of
South American was religious where religion was most prevailing and influence the lives of the
people. It was a bible belt where bible stronghold was witnessed. Due to the influence of the Bible,
the men had the conviction that women were the cause of evil and most of the problems in the
world. The implementation of the beliefs affected women’s negatively in the society. The women
had been deprived keeping their own individualities, suffered discrimination and they were
inhabited by the men. Their daily desires about the sex were condemned hence being treated as
the whims. Miss Emily is the one who suffered the influence of the womanhood as it was indicated
in the bible. Throughout her life, she was dominated by her father where she was not given an
opportunity to live her own life. She was struggling to control her feeling so that she will not go
against the wishes of the society. After the death of her father, he gets free and is involved in their
love relationship where such behavior was condemnable in the society of the South America
(Faulkner 150). This shows that Miss Emily did not live her life which made her experience
loneliness without having the desire to be married.

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The society of South America had a perception of a female. In this society, women were
influenced and affected by the traditions and principles set in the society. Miss Emily experience
such society perceptions of the women. The communities in the society felt that they had an
obligation to take care of the women and to control their feelings and action. In the story, Miss
Emily was seen as a dependent and weak woman. After the death of her father she was left without
no man who is taking care of him this leads absolving of her tax duties by the county council
(Faulkner 90).
Women in the society were expected to play certain roles which were only specific to them.
On failure to carry out the obligations, no one was expected to help them. A wife had a duty, with
the help of daughters and women servant in the society to cultivate the vegetable garden and care
for the livestock alongside running daily house chores effectively. Faulkner gives an account of
how women are not given due respect all through the south by detailing Emily Grierson’s hostile
relationship with her father. The idea of limiting Emily’s socialization power and dating in
Jefferson as a result of his father’s strictness brings about depression to Emily (Faulkner 351).
This also affects her ability to carry out duties designated to her as a woman. Her interaction with
her father is best portrayed by the tableau of their basic unit of society where the father is seen
standing with a horsewhip in his hand and his back is directed towards his daughter. Emily is very
much dependent on male characters in such a way that she is obstinate to agree her father’s death.
This, of course, shows an over a domineering way of life that Emily’s father has had on her.
The other female figures in the society are brought out to be gossipers who only attend
Emily’s father funeral to satisfy their curiosity as well as giving a criticizing figure to the
interaction of Emily and Homer Barron (Faulkner 40). On the other hand, the men attend the
funeral to demonstrate their final honors to the departed key person. In general, the whole town of

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Jefferson is shown to be chauvinistic with men having all the say about women. Females have to
abide by the rules set by their husbands or fathers irrespective of whether they are favorable or not.
They have to display their fearful character and be delicate persons. This kind of attitude makes
Emily run off any man who displayed interest in her and later when she is old and her father has
died she refuses that the body is carried from the house. Women are expected to be inferior to men.
In addition to this, women are required to have a certain appearance. Faulkner spends a
considerable amount of time giving a description of Emily at each stage of her life. At some point
she is seen changing to be a fat person and her hair had transformed to be grey. According to the
society, she worsens every day and she is not able to deliver the womanly duties expected of her
in times of appearance. A woman is also expected to behave in a sober way (Faulkner 163). Emily
fails to do this, when he keeps Homer’s corpse in her bedroom until the body smell. This clinging
to dead human is viewed to have resulted from her father’s behavior of chasing away many men
who had approached her.
Religion is depicted as another reason for Emily’s neglect of her roles as a woman in the
society as per that time. Southern males are seen to abide by a sort of biblical assertions that the
females are beginning all kinds of evils facing whole world. This backward form of belief was
strongly ingrained in the minds of women in such a way that their situation worsened by the day.
They were not allowed to be themselves (Faulkner 180). Any requirements which were connected
with sex or day to day errands were are severely and considered as impulses. However, after the
death of her father, Emily enters in a frowned upon romantic relationship with Homer. In this way,
she defies the norms and traditions expected in a southern society thus, failing in her traditionally
expected duty in regard to relationship matters.

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Conclusion
From the above discussion, it is clear that, A Rose for Emily is a short story about a woman
who was controlled by his biological father for the better part of her life. This single woman came
along with many challenges like mental abuse that came from domineering personality of her
father. She does not experience a good life leading to her inability to cope up with digital society
thus, staying a normal life. Several instances of gender strategies have been discussed throughout
the paper like Emily desire for marriage and her lifestyle in the town.

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Work Cited
Faulkner, William, and M T. Inge. A Rose for Emily. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970. Print.