Emily Grierson Influence

A positive father-daughter relationship can have a very big impact on a woman's life. A father's influence in his daughter's life can play a part on her self-esteem, moral and judgement on men. In the short story “A Rose for Emily,” Emily Grierson’s father does not exactly play a positive role in Miss Emily’s life. Mr. Grierson constantly is running men out of Emily’s life and controlling her, this leads her to never having a healthy relationship.
After the death of Mr. Grierson, Miss Emily met a man by the name of Homer Barron. In the story, Homer is described as “ a Yankee- a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face” (Faulkner 520). Many Jeffersonians in town started making accusations about Homer Barron, and there were even more accusations being made when Miss Emily Grierson started started riding in his yellow-wheeled buggy on Sunday afternoons. Miss Emily falls in love and intends to marry this northerner, but his intentions are much different. Homer is not interested in Miss Emily, and some think that he

Emily is a very mysterious and strange character. Throughout the story, Miss Emily’s behavior turns very bizarre. This erratic behavior started showing after Emily’s father passed away. Mr. Grierson was a very controlling father, he constantly was running men out of Emily’s life. After Mr. Grierson dies in the story it says, “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” (Faulkner 520). Her father prevents her from finding a husband in order to keep Miss Emily under his guidance. The relationship between Miss Emily Grierson and Mr. Grierson seems very strange and unusual for a father daughter relationship. The relationship these two had, definitely plays a role in Miss Emily’s behavior towards Homer