Do you think some people can love another so much that they simply cannot bear for that person to leave? Is it possible Emily was like this? I think Emily, after a lifetime of isolation, couldn’t bear for Homer to leave her. Her father kept her away from all possible...

An important symbol from Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” is the strand of gray hair found in the final scene of the story, beside the corpse of Emily’s one time suitor Homer Barron. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow… we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair”...

In many ways, William Faulkner’s famous short story, “A Rose for Emily” is a Southern Gothic narrative about the decadent traditions of the South in the early 20th century. The narrative concerns a woman, Miss Emily Grierson, from a Mississippi town steeped in tradition. Told in a unique third-person point-of-view...

A Rose for Emily is a story concerned with the nature of change, transition and with capacity for an individual to exist in a liminal space between between historical periods. The figure of Emily is one such character; some who who is treated as a “curiosity” and a “monument” by...

A Rose for Emily, is a short story by William Faulkner, a Southern writer. The brief tale concerns an elderly spinster, or unmarried Southern woman whose family was once a part of the post-Civil War, or antebellum aristocracy. While they may have fallen upon hard times thereafter, in Emily’s mind...