Her Own Traditions - A Rose for Emily

Emily Grierson was not your average traditional house wife from the south. As a matter of fact she was nothing near traditional. Emily was a strong southern woman who many respected in her town, especially the men who lived there. She was known to be very independent and didn't back down from no one not even the Board of Aldermen. Its quoted in the beginning of passage 7, "she didnt even ask them to sit". That passage was referring to the Board of Aldermen which clearly showed what little respect she had for men. Emily had her own traditions, which meant she did things her own way and gave no explaination to no one. In passage 41, the druggiest is asking her to explain what she needs arsenic for? Its quoted in passage 42, "Miss Emily just stared at him, her head titled back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went adn got the arsenic and wrapped it up". Emily was very intimidating and feared, thats why she was nothing like the other women in her town. Because back in those days women had no voice and it was clear that Emily did. Emily always kept to herself and always gave people something to talk about. Emily ironically was a lot like her father, very dominant and well respected and was always driving people away. Its stated in passage 28 that Emily's father had driven all the men in Emily's life away. In the story A Rose for Emily, Emily runs nearly a lot of men and women away just like her father.