She is completely dependent upon her father who rules over emily's life as a tyrant. When she was young, he ran. Webthe fact that miss emily is left to live in her own anachronistic world, corpse and all, without anyone intruding can be linked to the way that gender can be used in a. Webabstract—systemic functional linguistics (sfl) has been widely used by linguists and scholars to analyze linguistic phenomenon for many years. This paper adopts transitivity. Webfrom the very sentence, we can see that emily’s father had the dominant power over emily’s relationship with men, he protected his daughter by strictly controlling her. In “a rose for emily”, miss emily grierson was a morbid woman living in isolation because of the lifelong persecution of patriarchy, family, tradition, and puritanism.
