A Rose for Emily | Atmosphere and Theme in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
In the following essay, Ray B. West, Jr. discusses the contrast between the past and present in ‘‘A Rose for Emily.’’
The first clues to meaning in a short story usually arise from a detection of the principal contrasts which an author sets up. The most common, perhaps, are contrasts of character, but when characters are contrasted there is usually also a resultant contrast in terms of action. Since action reflects a moral or ethical state, contrasting action points to a contrast in ideological...
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