A Good Man Is Hard To Find And A Rose For Emily

Personality Disorders Merriam Webster Dictionary defines personality as “the complex of characteristics that distinguishes an individual, especially their behavioral and emotional characteristics.” The way of each person of feeling, behaving and acting makes his/her personality unique from other people in the society. Individual’s experiences, life situations, surrounding, and personal characteristics contribute to develop their personality. People sometimes suffer of some perturb in their personalities. When a person disturbs his regular or normal functions, he is considerate that has a disorder, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association defines a personality disorder

The young lady called Emily and the old one named Grandmother are those characters. The respective narrators created two personalities who want to control everything around them. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily’s father die, then she wants to maintain the control in her rounding. She did not desire or not accept her father’s death because Emily did not receive the ladies who came to demonstrate their condolences after her lost. Trying to keep everything as normal scenery, Emily said to the town’s ladies that her father was not dead. (Faulkner 80).

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, readers can appreciate at the beginning of the story the Grandmother does not desire to go to Florida because she has family in Tennessee who she prefers to visit. This old lady always tries to see the scene in her favor. For instance, all moments she try to convince to Bailey does not go to Florida saying: “Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.” (O’Connor 340). With these words Grandmother wants to intimidate to Bailey with crime reports just to change the

Marriage is not in her plans. This is a characteristic of Schizoid disorder: lacking of romantic. Furthermore, Emily did not want to maintain any relation with the ladies of the town, she lived in her word, apart to the society. Her only family was her father, after his death, Emily staid almost alone. Her only company was a servant. Emily was a lady with cold feelings, solitary, and without social interest. Besides, she prefers to stay alone with her thoughts than maintain a relationship with others. Without doubts, Emily is an example of Schizoid personality disorder that needed therapist treatment in order to be a happiest