Reflective Essay Writing Topic: Discuss about the four men who might be responsible for Emily’s isolation from the world outside? Reading a story “A Rose for Emily” that was written by William Faulkner, we could see easily that there are four men who might be responsible for Emily’s isolation from the world outside So, who are they and what did they do? Looking at every side around these characters, we would find out the answer about Emily’s life Nguyễn Anh Tâm Trang There are many characters might be responsible for Emily's isolation from the world outside And the first men I want to talk about is her father This is a character who was not present in the story, but he was portrayed as a haunting and overprotective figure over Emily's life At this story, we can see he refused all young men who came to propose Emily When Emily could have found a husband, could have a life of her own, he said: "No, you must stay here and take care of me" In his eyes, no one is suitable to be Emily's husband, because they belonged to the lower class He stole away Emily's happiness; he also blindly taught Emily that she belonged to the upper class, so she had to avoid having any acquaintance with the normal people Therefore, after the death of her father, she still always not change her way of thinking towards people around her Therefore, we can say, her father has a big influence on her life In addition, through the picture of him, a picture draw about him with a hand hold a riding crop and stared her, it's mean that his authority still controlled Emily to the rest of her life even after his death Lâm Thị Liên The next person is Homer Barron- a large Northman He became Emily's lover after her father died She abandoned herself to grief, loneliness after her father death But when she met Homer, she started to wanna go out, go on living because she thought that Homer would be the one who helped her to stand up and found the true joy in the life Unfortunately, Homer is not a marrying man like she hoped, he did not love her and deceived her Emily couldn't accept this truth, therefore, in despair, she killed him, she wanted to possess him forever even in dead, just his body not heart From that, she rarely went out again; she turned back to the reclusive living in the past Actually, Homer Barron had also contributed to Emily's isolation from the world outside Nguyễn Thị Diệu Nga The man who might be a contributing factor for Emily's isolation from the world outside is the Colonel Sartoris who belonged to contemporary generation of Emily's father He remitted tax for Emily, which declared that Emily represented the "Old South"- the upper class in Southern society He should have let Emily work as townspeople to pay money for tax so that she stops living in an illusion However he respected Emily and he wanted to protect the monument-Emily is the last person of aristocratic family Hence, she avoided getting close relationships with neighbors and other people outside her house Vũ Thị Ngọc Duyên The last man who might be responsibility for Emily's isolation is the Nergo man - Tobe This man appear in the story as a loyal manservant who did everything for Emily such as doing the gardening, cooking and going to the market to buy food for her Emily did not have to anything by herself Even he helped contribute to hide Barron's corpse for her As a man who is assumed to know what is right and what is wrong The Nergo man should have told Emily the truth That is the world outside has changed, her father died, her lover did not love her and so on and advised her to go out to participate in the society and to change her lifestyle completely But he did not like that Therefore, he should be charged responsible for Emily's alienation and wrong-doing action Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Linh It’s no doubt that these men are also a factor that played an important role in building and developing Emily’s character On the other hand, these characters are also representative for things that taking the youth and even freedom of a beautiful girl as Emily In a word, William Faulkner was very successful when using men, such as: Emily’s father, Homer Barron,… to describe skillfully for the main character-Emily Everything seem to become too perfect to the story was really touching to the heart of millions reader Nguyễn Anh Tâm Trang ... contemporary generation of Emily' s father He remitted tax for Emily, which declared that Emily represented the "Old South"- the upper class in Southern society He should have let Emily work as townspeople... last man who might be responsibility for Emily' s isolation is the Nergo man - Tobe This man appear in the story as a loyal manservant who did everything for Emily such as doing the gardening, cooking... Emily work as townspeople to pay money for tax so that she stops living in an illusion However he respected Emily and he wanted to protect the monument -Emily is the last person of aristocratic