The life of Miss Emily Grierson: A characterization of Miss Emily Grierson in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” Miss Emily Grierson better known as Miss Emily, born an only child. Her father is rich and overprotective. They live in a small town name Jefferson. There’s no mother or any female living in the house. Miss Emily has no friends, unless her father would choose them. Miss Emily has a childhood with no …showed first 75 words of 692 total…

…showed last 75 words of 692 total…on the second day. Some of the town people go into the house, and dispose of certain things. The house has a room upstairs that has been locked for some years. The room is opened by the people, and there lies Homer’s body. Miss Emily has dressed him in the nightshirt and kept him upstairs in her house for years. Miss Emily tries to keep people she cares about the most close to her.