The Major Years: Isolation And Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination

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and instead they tend to hide away. Backman notes that, "The will to
confront reality seems to be losing out to the need to escape"(p.184).
Miss Emily is a woman who had the whole town wondering what she was
doing, but did not allow anyone the pleasure of finding out. Once the men that
she cared about in life deserted her, either by death or by simply leaving her,
she hid out and did not allow anyone to get close to her. Miss Emily was indeed
afraid to confront the reality that Backman discusses. Since she did not want to
accept the fact that the people she cared about were gone, she hid in her house
and did not go out. She was the perfect example of a woman alienated by a
society controlled by men who make trouble for her instead of helping her.
Minrose Gwin, author of The Feminine and Faulkner, states that several
of Faulkner's female characters, including Emily Grierson, are "indeed active
disruptive subjects in their narratives; theirs are voices which ...

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