Character & Setting

In the story, "A Rose for Emily" I find the setting and the main character, Emily, a lot alike. In the story, Emily is once described as looking like one of those "angles in colored church windows- sort of tragic and serene". Emily is a lot like her setting. The mystery of what's inside the house the entire time and why there's a terrible smell resembles her personality as well. It reminds me of how she keeps secrets to herself, yet people are still aware that she's holding things back. When Emily boards up her house upstairs, it's as if she's closing off parts of her life...she's only got so much longer to live. The solicity of her house and how it's not welcoming to others matches her personalitly because she also shuts herself away from the people in her town, just as her house is. "Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced." This resembles how Emily has shut away herself from outside people around the town for forty years as well, just as that particular room has been shut away from the rest of the town. "From that time on her front door had remained close, save for a period of six or seven years" is another sentance from the story that relates to how Emily choses to be alone and doesn't want any visitors or anything to do with the people around the town, and this reflects on her personalitly as not only partially mourning the loss of her father, but her will to be alone and away from everyone else.