A Rose for Emily shows how there is a gap between the way men and women are treated. The narration is in third person with different people and highlights how different people have different views on life. Women are inferior to men and according to A Rose for Emily there are only values and appearances. The people in the town participate in these beliefs throughout the story with their words and actions. There is no doubt that women are perceived as inferior to men in the story. Emily gets insulted like she's stupid or a less than human being or something throughout the entire story. The story begins to fuel their beliefs towards women. It says, "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men out of a kind of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house..." This shows that the men only showed standing out of respect. Men only went because they had to. For example, the Colonel remitted Emily's taxes and the narrator states that what he told her was only believable to a woman. The Colonel thinks he is smarter than Emily and can take advantage of her mind. H “made up a complicated story that Miss Emily's father had lent money to the town, which the town, for business reasons, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartori's generation could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it. It was just a way of trying to benefit Emily and I think she knew it. As time passed in history "more modern ideas" came into play and are said to have led to some dissatisfaction, thus showing that people did not want to do without change, thus supporting their belief that women are unequal in comparison to men. , people in the city believe that women's unique values are their appearance. The author spends almost an entire page criticizing Emily's appearance. There was nothing in his mind, his other values or his successes. Initially Emily has a bad smell in the house, as a result the women start to think that it is because Emily's kitchen is dirty. Emily has a man as a servant and they make comments like “Just as if a man – any man – could maintain a kitchen properly”.
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