Emily Grierson

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Emily Grierson is a fictional character in the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.

Grierson is a spinster living alone in Faulkner's fictional Jefferson, Mississippi with an overbearing father. The townspeople feel sympathy for her after her father's death and try to help her cope with life alone. However, they underestimate Grierson's zealous need for her father and Homer and the measures she was willing to take to keep them with her.