Thwarted (verb)
(1) to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
(2) to frustrate or baffle (a plan, Purpose, etc.).
found in “A Rose for Emily” Part 4 paragraph 5
Then we knew that this was to be excepted too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman’s life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.
Emily’s father opposed all of the men in Emily’s life and she was never able to pursue a proper and healthy relationship and because of this it drove Emily to the point of insanity. Even once her father passed away she still was not able to pursue a proper relationship with Homer Barron and in the end went completely insane and killed him by giving him poison to drink.
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