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The Power Of The Old South In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

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In William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily, he portrays a power struggle between modernizing society and the ideals of the “Old South”. In this rapidly changing society, one individual refuses to conform to such change. Miss Emily, much like her house, stubbornly rejects change, in a desperate attempt to maintain the values of the “Old South”. Her house itself stands as a reminder of a past era. In a city that was moving towards a new age, the house stood stubbornly against conformity as a representation of the “Old South”. The house and Miss Emily stand alone in a refusal to conform to a changing society; they refuse to believe that the grass is greener on the other side. To her the past was “…a huge meadow which no winter ever quite
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