William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

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William Faulkner writes “A Rose for Emily” to discuss the south and how it’s denying to acknowledge the unavoidable changes, historically and socially. Just as Emily passed, so well the south if they do not adapt to modern times. Throughout the short story written by William Faulkner, the perplexing character Miss Emily, Faulkner brings across the struggles that surface from trying to keep tradition alive, while modernization is occurring. Jefferson is at a road block accepting a modern, more monetary future while at the same time still lounged on the point of the past. From the big squarish frame house that had once been white, to the cemetery where there lay unknown civil war fallen soldiers, Miss Emily’s house was the last one on what once