<P> The story opens with a brief first - person account of the funeral of Emily Grierson , an elderly Southern woman whose funeral is the obligation of their small town . It then proceeds in a non-linear fashion to the narrator 's recollections of Emily 's archaic and increasingly strange behavior throughout the years . Emily is a member of a family of the antebellum Southern aristocracy . After the Civil War , the family has fallen on hard times . She and her father , the last two of the clan , continue to live as if in the past ; Emily 's father refuses for her to marry . Her father dies when Emily is about the age of 30 , and takes her by surprise . She refused to give up his corpse , and the townspeople wrote it off as her grieving process . </P>
<P> The story opens with a brief first - person account of the funeral of Emily Grierson , an elderly Southern woman whose funeral is the obligation of their small town . It then proceeds in a non-linear fashion to the narrator 's recollections of Emily 's archaic and increasingly strange behavior throughout the years . Emily is a member of a family of the antebellum Southern aristocracy . After the Civil War , the family has fallen on hard times . She and her father , the last two of the clan , continue to live as if in the past ; Emily 's father refuses for her to marry . Her father dies when Emily is about the age of 30 , and takes her by surprise . She refused to give up his corpse , and the townspeople wrote it off as her grieving process . </P>
who is emily in the story a rose for emily
who is emily in the story a rose for emily
Emily Grierson
Emily Grierson