Attitudes Toward Women Reflected in 3 Stories

The women in these stories are separated from men, and the mere fact that they are separated creates a tension between themselves and their neighbors. The people of the town look at Emily in the Faulkner story as a person who is not a complete human being. At the same time, her social position requires a certain sort of match to satisfy the town, and Homer Barron does not fit the bill: "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer" (313). Ultimately, though, a marriage with any man is better than no marriage at all: "Then we were sure that they were to be married. . . We were really glad" (314). In the atmosphere in which she lives, there is little for her to do once it appears she has been abandoned except to withdraw from all social discourse. Her father had chased away all her suitors, and now another male seemed to have abandoned her as well. Her father's death is also something of an abandonment, one she does not care to admit because she has been made so dependent on this male figure.

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