In William Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily the narrator introduces the reader to Emily Grierson a sheltered southern women. Emily’s death drew much attention to the town as she would never leave her decaying house. During the course of the story Faulkner tells the readers about her loneliness and isolation caused by her overprotective father and contributed onto her lover Homer Barron. Faulkner details the loneliness of Emily with the death of father who was well respected throughout the town. After the death of her father, the townspeople expected Emily to be in grief and depressed; “Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead.” Emily convinced herself that her father had not passed away and treated him as if he were still alive causing ministers and doctors to come in and bury him. Without her controlling father present with her, Emily had tax payments due and her town was changing outside of her home. Her father was very over protective with her and wouldn’t allow her to marry causing her isolation from other men. Due to the fact that her father had driven away all men that had tried to enter her life, she is left alone after her fathers passing. After her fathers death, Emily does not go outside of her home for some time until she meets a northerner named Homer Barron. They are together for a long time and everyone in the town thinks they will be married soon. However, after this relationship lasts about a year and a half, Homer decides he wants to leave Emily. Emily, not wanting to go through the pain of losing someone like her father decides to kill Homer. “A neighbor saw the negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time.” She had bought some arsenic before he disappeared and the people of the town suspected that she might kill