Journal 75: Shadow of the Past

Emily in the story, A Rose for Emily, has its characteristics, life, actions greatly influenced by the events of the past. The events of the past influenced her by tormenting her with the presence of his fathers, her cousins, her family histories and the actions of the people before her of the Southern United States of America. Emily's character is most greatly affected by her family in that she looks down on people because she is a wealthy aristocrat. Also, people look up to her and let her pass inconvenience because of her high society status that makes her dependent and spoiled. Her father played a role on her action of not marrying because he refused and scares off all suitors of Emily because he doesn't feel like they're good enough for her and therefore Emily becomes unmarried til a very late age. The cousins of her have the same effects; They scared of Homer Baron. However, scaring off Baron wasn't just because of social class difference but also because of the cultural influence that made the Southerners look down on the northerners that came to the South looking for profit. They call them carpetbaggers and they don't like them. That is why Homer left and from this, Emily gone rage and killed him.