granted in the Antebellum period. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner uses the towns people, Miss Emily, and Miss Emily’s home to show the pervading idealistic society of the old south, within the reformative society of the New South. In this story, readers witness the life of Miss Emily through the eyes of the townspeople, some of which are the very embodiment of Old south ideals. Judge Stevens, the 80-year-old
“A Rose for Emily”, a short story written by William Faulkner, provides details about southern life in the early twentieth century through a story of a southern woman, Emily Grierson, who is known in her town as being weird and creepy. Within the story, she kills her lover and spends time with his corpse until she as well dies. Although it is not blatantly said, A Rose for Emily provides an accurate depiction of the south. It may upon the surface seem to be a simple gothic story, but Faulkner through
impact the meaning of the story. A Southern women by the name of, Miss Emily whom lived in a small town in Jefferson County, Mississippi along with her father and servant, Tobe. Miss Emily’s father thought that no man in Jefferson was worth his daughter’s time. He did not let no man in Jefferson try to get the