Born into an old Mississippi family that had lost its influence and wealth during the Civil War, William lived nearly all his life in the south writing about Yoknaptawpha Country an imagined Mississippi country similar to his home in Oxford. His story “A rose for Emily" about the mysterious life of Emily Grierson, presents a personal conflict rooted in her southern Identity.

“A Rose for Emily” is about a person that describes the events of the life of Emily. She is born in a proud aristocratic family. Her father chases away all the young men that want to marry her. When her father dies, the narrator pities her because he has left her alone. When the town offer condolences for his death, Emily meets and says that her father hasn’t died until3 days. The next summer, Emily begins to be seen with Homer Barron, a man below her status. The town members were glad Emily would have an interest but then they disapprove her behaviors.” When Homer disappears, the narrator believes that Emily has bought arsenic to kill herself because Homer has left her alone and the narrator pities her. When Emily finally dies, the town comes to her funeral and act as if they has once danced with her to show their respect for her. After the funeral they go to her house and find the corpse of Homer rotting in the bed. On the dust of the pillow next to Homer they find an indentation of a head,and there, a long gray hair.

1-Death(Emily,her father, and Homer). 1-The relationship between Emily and her father. 2-South and North. 3-Changes from the past to present. 5-Homesexuality.

Place: William Faulkner set a “A Rose for Emily” in the fictional Mississippi town of Jeffer- son, modeled after the real Mississippi town of Oxford, where the author spent most of his life. Time: Events in the story take place in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries

Conflict can be viewed in three separate ways: 1-Miss Emily and the townspeople. 2-Miss Emily and her father 3-North and South.

-The unnamed narrator is neither a she or he. The narrator Speaks in the plural rather than the singular using in the word" we” rather than “I". In that sense the narrator,or narrators, is speaking on behalf of the entire town.

1-Simile: She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water Metaphor : The past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches. 3-Oxymoron: Heavily lightsome (heavily :slow and clumsy ;lightsome: lively,nimble) 4-Paradox : Emily is both weak and strong. For example, her father manipulated her in her youth, but she manipulates city officials in gaining tax forgiveness 5-Symbols: House,Emily's father, Homer