Meet the Cast
Miss Emily Grierson
Miss Emily is an old-school Southern belle trapped by a society bent on forcing her to stay in her role...and an abusive father bent on forcing her to obey his will.Aww...poor Miss Emily!But Miss E...
Tobe
Miss Emily is a tragic figure...but there's no one in "A Rose For Emily" that takes the gold medal for tragedy like Tobe. Take a moment to check out Miss Emily's "Character Analysis" and then come...
Homer Barron
Here's what we know for sure about Homer Barron: #1. Miss Emily kills him with rat poison. Oof.#2. The Jeffersonians don't like him much: he's a rough-talking, charismatic Northerner.And...that's a...
Miss Emily's Father
We're going to let Faulkner himself take the mic on the character of Emily's father:In this case there was the young girl with a young girl's normal aspirations to find love and then a husband and...
Colonel Sartoris
The Colonel is the guy who initially dreamed up the scheme to relieve Emily of her tax obligations when her father died. And sure, that was a nice thing to do. But, the Colonel is also the guy who...
Judge Stevens
Judge Stevens gets one of the best lines in the story:"Dammit, sir, will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?" (2.9) Now, we think Judge Stevens has a point...if, say, someone had started...
Old Lady Wyatt
Old lady Wyatt is Emily's great-aunt (on her father's side, we believe). Before her death, according to the townspeople, old lady Wyatt is "completely crazy" (2.11). She's in the story to suggest t...
The Cousins
The town thinks Miss Emily's "two female cousins are even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been" (4.4). And that is definitely not a compliment. These cousins from Alabama are relatives of ol...