The Lonely Life of Ms. Emily Grierson In the course of one's life, a person must once experience the overwhelming feeling of loneliness, or the state of being without company. Being impossible to avoid, loneliness inflicts everyone at some point in their life. The sadness and grief of being alone is often pensive and unbearable, yet sometimes can be peaceful and meditative. Loneliness, just like any other emotion, has an immense power to transform a …showed first 75 words of 1015 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1015 total…up to her, and she had become insane because of the pain and grief which had become such a tremendous burden in her life. Works Cited The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB). Vol. 102: American Short Story Writers 1910-1945. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel. Gde Research. London. 1991. 78-81 Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, and Plays. 3rd ed. Eds. Hans P. Guth and Gabriele Rico. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003.165-172.