A Rose for Emily (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: About 1865-1924
- Setting: Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Miss Emily Grierson, The unnamed narrator, Homer Barron, Tobe, Emily's father, Colonel Sartoris
- Genres: Short fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: Values, Tradition, South or Southerners, Psychology or psychologists, Death or dying, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Loneliness, Horror, Celibacy, Neuroses
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
The Story
Although an unnamed citizen of the small town of Jefferson, in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, tells the story of the aristocratic Miss Emily Grierson in a complicated manner, shifting back and forth in time without trying to make clear transitions, the story line itself is quite simple. Miss Emily's father dies when she is a little more than thirty, in about 1882. For three days she prevents his burial, refusing to accept his death. He had driven off all of her suitors; now she is alone, a spinster, in a large house.
In the summer after the death of her...
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