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A Rose for Emily | Another Flower for Faulkner’s Bouquet: Theme and Structure in “A Rose for Emily”

In the following essay, William V. Davis discusses Faulkner’s use of time and narrative structure, commenting that together they “provide some of the most lucid and meaningful understandings of Faulkner’s fiction.’’

Nearly everyone familiar with the writings of William Faulkner is aware of the fracturings of time so common in his work. Many of his major characters spend much of their fictional lives trying to piece together their experiences and lives, to put them in some kind of chronological or existential order. Few of them succeed; and when they do, as is perhaps the case with Quentin Compson (The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!)...

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