Old Society Versus New Society

Learning the extremity of the story, A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner, Homer was dead during all the years that Emily went into solitude, one can see how Emily decays over time. When Emily's father died, she barely left the house (Faulkner 150). There came about a smell from the house, a stench which her neighbors started to complain about (Faulkner 151). Her neighbors became very concerned about the smell and Emily herself. However, no one really went to confront her about it.
People care about their surroundings because it's a representation equal to themselves. No one would want to live in an environment that is tainted, and tarnished. People like to express themselves to others by having a presentation. People grow dreary as their surroundings as well. When one lives in a depressing place, they became depressing as well. We become a part of our environment and that environment influences us on the outside.
One of the Grierson neighbor's, tried to convince the mayor if he can talk to Emily about the smell. The mayor, then, was Judge Stevens and he was eighty-years old (Faulkner 150). It was still the time of Old South, and the mayor thought it was not a gentlemen thing to do. Instead, some of the neighbors gathered together one night and snooped around Emily's house and broke into her abode to clean it (Faulkner 151). Emily went into a melt down after her father died. Her neighbors came over to the house to console her but she wasn't in grief. Usually when someone dies, an individual wears black that signifies condolences and grief. However, Emily did not wear such an attire. On the other hand she told the neighbors that her father wasn’t dead for the next three days (Faulkner 151).
When someone close to us dies, we g...

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...arted anew. She started to date Homer, and then the townspeople suggested that they got married. After Emily and Homer got 'married' they never came out of the house again. The next time the townspeople saw her, "she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray" (Faulkner 154). We can see that Emily didn't take care of herself. She just left herself go and started decaying just like her house. No one said a word to her, everyone just pitied her instead.
The society today will act very different if someone was in Emily's state. Everyday our government develop new organizations that can aid others so they can better themselves. People nowadays stop pitying others and put their sympathy to good use by stepping in and taking action. Because only human beings can understand what other human beings are feeling. We need that connection to others to help ourselves.