Part one of term paper
Miss Emily's male interaction in The way that a person is raised has a lot to do with their personality and actions as an adult. The protagonist in "A Rose for Emily" is an example of just that. Miss Emily was raised to be very dependent on the only male figure in her life, her father. This set the type of interaction that she wo ...

Part two of term paper
... kept her close at home and didn’t allow her to see other men. This of course caused Emily to realize that she would spend the rest of her life with her father. When her father died and left her alone Miss Emily did not want to face reality and tried to keep the body. This proves her inability to let go of her first true male figure. Miss Emily’s next male figure is one that helped her earlier in her life. Colonel Sartoris was able to remit Emily’s taxes under the impression th ...