A Rose for Emily | A Rose for Emily

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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)

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.

A Rose for Emily | A Rose for Emily

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