the other side of emily
...rld and locks herself inside. She doesn’t seem to realize that years have passed and times have changed. Keeping herself inside for so many years, she doesn’t know what’s going on outside. Also, after her father died and before she gets very sick, she refuses to believe her father died. “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”(P. 94). Miss Emily’s father keeps her away from young men probably because he doesn’t want his only daughter to get hurt. Parents keep their children sheltered because they don’t want them to experience things they may have as a child and don’t want them to get hurt. Parents want the best for their children by protecting them from real life experiences. Her father is the only man in her life and she is so attached she doesn’t want to give him up. “Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman’s life so many times had been to virulent and too furious to die”(P. 96). Miss Emily’s father prevents her from doing things as a woman. It seems as if she locks herself inside for years because she has hostility and she is furious towards her father. She picks up her father’s qualities. Miss Emily has reacted to things differently than any other person has because her father keeps her sheltered her whole life. Next, Miss Emily is very lonely. Her father has died and the ladies have the temerity to call, but are not received. “After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all”(P. 93) The only two people in her life has left and she is all alone. She is so lonely, she becomes depressed. It seems that she doesn’t know what to do with herself. She just stays inside, probably thinking about her father and sweetheart. She doesn’t have anyone to talk to either. Miss Emily’s father died, and the townspeople start to pity her. “Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized”(P. 94). She is all alone but has a huge house to live in by herself. After being alone for many years, people start to pity and feel sorry for her. Not only has her father died, but her sweetheart is gone too. She starts to be more kind and compassionate towards others. The next time the townspeople see Miss Emily she has grown fat. In the meantime, she starts to teach the granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris how to paint china and the newer generation becomes the spirit of the town, until she has passed away. “From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china painting”(P. 96). Miss Emily is so lonely she needs something to cheer her up and she likes to paint china, so she teaches Colonel Sartoris’ granddaughters how to paint. It is probably the only thing that gets the death of her father and sweetheart off her mind. Loneliness is normal in life. Everyone feels lonely at one time or another, but in Miss Emily’s case, she feels lonely all the time. Last but not least, Miss Emily is...