Insanity in a Rose for EmilyWilliam Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi, who was praised for his novels and short stories, many of which were set in the Yoknapatawpha County, fictional setting based on where he spent most of his childhood, Lafayette County. Faulkner, considered one of the most important writers in American southern literature, was somewhat unknown until he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for two other of his works. In 1931, he published his first short story, A Rose for Emily, in a national magazine. The central plot of the story essentially revolves around Emily's stubborn attitude towards change. Before the Civil War, his father, from a wealthy and well-known family, made a generous contribution to the southern city, and in gratitude, the mayor at the time sanctioned them from paying taxes. Even after her father's death, she believed that this privilege was still afforded to her. Overall, it was difficult for him to let go of the past and make room for the future, which was very common among southerners of that era. Her inflexible behavior is also shown when she refuses to accept the death of her father, to whom she was very attached. He was very strict with his daughter, becoming the only man in her life, until Homer Barron, who was Emily's lover for a time. The town had a habit of making up stories about their relationship, without really being sure of what was actually going on between them. In fact, they used to make their own assumptions about Emily, giving her a squeaky clean image, which was then contradictory when they finally got an authentic view of her life. However, later, middle of paper, it proves that Emily was crazy. It takes a mentally deranged person to murder someone, but keeping the body for personal gratification is just excessively deranged. In conclusion, Emily is presented as a very complex character who is extremely misunderstood by the people around her. She is unable to accept change in her life, forcing her to live an isolated lifestyle that has the townspeople intrigued by how little they know about her, forcing them to create their own assumptions naive about who she was. Obviously, Emily had deep issues within herself that caused her to act irrationally, but she kept that in the privacy of her own home. She clearly understood that the things she was doing weren't logical, that there was something wrong with her, so she managed to keep all of her monsters hidden in the closet, or in this case , in the bedroom on the second floor..