A Rose for Emily Emily’s Father Throughout this story, the overbearing presence of Emily Grierson’s father is perhaps the greatest influence on her behavior. The story describes how Miss Emily’s father rejected her suitors by standing in front of her and aggressively clutching a horsewhip whenever the young men came to call. Without her fathers influence and overprotective behavior it is likely that Emily would have made one of her suitors her …showed first 75 words of 583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 583 total…was Homer’s and not her father’s was of little consequence to Emily, if the townspeople hadn’t forced her to give up her father’s corpse, then he would have lain in place of Homer on the bed. Emily’s unhealthy attachment to her father suggests that she may have had an incestuous relationship with him while he was still alive and she used the body of Homer Barron to continue this relationship.