All alone and mentally ill, Miss Emily shows that she is mentally sick through her sad, stubborn efforts to cling to the past. She is a lonely woman because her father scared all of her suitors away when she was younger. Miss Emily refuses to change with the town and the times, and stubbornly clings to the past. Miss Emily’s story is told by the townspeople, who are very interested in the unusual traits that Miss Emily shows. Throughout the story, Miss Emily is living all alone (except for her servant, Tobe) in her deceased father’s decaying mansion. Isolated in her father’s decaying mansion in Jefferson, Mississippi, unwilling to accept the passing of time, Miss Emily shows several symptoms of a mental illness. Miss Emily Grierson, the protagonist of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” is an unusual character in the sense that she is depressed, withdrawn, and ill.
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