Behind Closed Doors

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Throughout the years many different psychoanalytical theories have proved essential to the way that some authors write their poems or books. In A Rose for Emily the psychological aspect to a writer’s writing becomes very apparent when people finally begin to discover the life that Emily led behind the security of the closed doors of her home.
No one in the town really knew Emily, or how she lived behind the walls of her home because she never let people in. With her death people become curious and wanted to know what the inside of her home had looked like and see everything that she has kept hidden all throughout the years. “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years” (144). Emily had never had a chance at life because her father always kept her secluded and never let her around any of the men. Emily spent her whole life devoted...

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