“A Rose for Emily” shows the concept of isolation and separation. Emily Grierson's father was many of her problems. Emily Grierson lived her life with her father's expectations. Her father thinks that no man is good enough for his daughter. Therefore, he kicks anyone who comes closer to his daughter. '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, as people will.
After Emily lived under her father's expectations for so many years, her father died. It causes Emily to go to madness. Since her father refused all the men that liked Emily in her entire life, she is left alone after her death. 'After her father's death she went out very little after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. Emily's point of view towards men is affected by her father's rules, which causes her to isolate herself from the people that live in the town.
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Emily decides not to go out anymore because there's no use in it, but she meets Homer Barron one day. Many people in the town used to talk about Emily homer because they were so close, everyone thought that they would marry one day, but a rumor separates that Homer Barron liked men. After 'Homer himself had remarked--he liked men,' This was not well accepted by society, nor was it accepted by Miss Emily, and even when once again there was a change a reality she had to endure. Emily still 'carried her head high enough--even when we believed that she fell.
But Homer wanted to leave her, so this causes Emily to go mad because she didn't want to lose the second person she loved, so she poisoned him. 'A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. Ms. Emily didn't want to be alone, which causes her to not buried Homer Barron's body, but eventually, this will cause Homer Barron's body to rot badly. It doesn't bother her because she is with her loved ones, but it bothers her neighbors. Emily did whatever to keep her secret from the people that live in the town.
'Already we knew that there was one room in that section above stairs which no one had seen in forty years. 'The man himself lay in the bed. 'Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of ahead. One of us lifted something from it and leaning forward that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair. They discover Homer's dead body lying in bed upstairs after Emily had died and still lies next to Homer Barron's rotting corpse. Her craziness took over her. She didn't want to be left out alone with nothing, so the only way to get out of the loneliness for her was by killing her, one love.
Emily thought in her mind that she would marry Homer Barron but didn't go as the way she planned in her head. 'We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man's toilet set in silver, with letters H.B. on each piece. Two days later, we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt...' To Emily she thinks, Homer is still alive because she buys this silver made especially for him.
After his death, Emily was never seen by anyone. She stays in her house and sleeps beside Homer Barron even though he is dead. In the end, Emily Grierson died alone in her home. 'She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.' Eventually, Emily dies after she lived her entire life loneliness because she followed under her father's expectations isolated herself from society. Being separated from society can cause a person to go crazy because of being alone. It can cause someone to do very insanity things.
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