MISS EMILY’S DEVIANT BEHAVIOR AND DESIRE TO GET LOVE AND BELONGINGNESS IN WILLIAM FAULKNER SHORT STORY, A ROSE FOR EMILY

Abstract

A Rose for Emily is a short story by William Faulkner in 1880s. This story explores about the main character, she is Miss Emily as a female figure who is lonely and struggles to seek the lost affection after her father died. The writer chooses deviant behavior of main character because she breaks the norm rule in environment; also, the writer wants to express the basic reason of main character to be the deviance.
The purposes from this research are: (1) to analyze the kinds and causes of Miss Emily’s deviant behavior (2) to describe the efforts of Miss Emily to get affection (3) also to elaborate the effects due to deviant behavior towards the society and herself.
In her research, the writer uses psychological approach to answer the third problem formulation. The writer finds there is the deviant behavior that Miss Emily did, to get love and affection by the people who she loves. In Miss Emily’s deviance, this occurs because of sociological and psychological factors, her father’s trust about status social. The writer also finds what her father did makes Miss Emily’s life difficult to socialize in the future. She becomes a lonely figure so that she did deviant behavior and broke the rule of norms in environment by saving her father’s corpse. She also did it to her boyfriend to get a role of her father who are dead.