Late Modernism In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

Late modernism is often questioned as to whether it differs in any way from the modernism period. This period describes a movement that arose from the modernist era and reacts against it, by rejecting its’ great narratives and abolishing the barriers between the traditional forms of arts, in order to disturb the genre and its literary production. The late modern writing explores mortality, the flaws of culture and also the potential aesthetic form. Writer William Faulkner, is seen as a modernist writer that uses an elaborative writing model where all stances are ambiguous and for introducing irony and humor in his literary constructions. Faulkner addresses in his writing freedom of expression and individualism, which are a clear break in the

At first, Emily is seen as a caring woman by the town people, but as soon as her personality shifts it causes concern within the town. Faulkner focuses the story on Emily’s mental collapse and the popularity conversion among the town habitats to isolation. Faulkner does not rely on a conventional linear approach to present his characters’ live. Alternatively he presents, a fractured and manipulated time structure that describes Emily’s life through a sequence of flashbacks. Faulkner displays two visions of time along the story, one is based on the objectivity of reality, in which time moves forward continuously. The other is based on a more subjective perception, that time moves forward, memory exist effortlessly and actively regardless the time passage. For instance, Emily stays firmly fixed in a subjection dimension of time, where life clearly moves on, but she stays devoted to the past, as cited in the story “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head (…) that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.”, Emily’s secret is finally revealed which hardens her reputation as peculiar in the town eyes. Emily deliberately creates a solitary existence for herself, due to the fact that she can not give up the men who have touched her life even after had passed