This is coolAnalysis of "A Rose for emily" In William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily," Emily Grierson is a woman who is used to being controlled by her father. When her father dies, she believes that she has control over him. Forced to lay her father to rest, Emily turns to her father's equivalent: Homer Barron. Homer is a gentleman friend of Emily. Emily soon finds that Homer does not plan on staying, so she …showed first 75 words of 398 total…

…showed last 75 words of 398 total…does not allow her to have that freedom. Her father's over-protection is evident in this passage, "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will" (59). Her father robs her from many of life's necessities. She misses out on having friends, being a normal "woman," and her ability to make her own decisions.