Part one of term paper
“A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner wrote the short story “A Rose for Emily”. It was published in 1930. The story was set in the Deep South, Jefferson to be precise. The time period was from 1884 to 1920. Emily Grierson was the main character in the story. Faulkner uses characterization to revel the character of E ...

Part two of term paper
... an external one, it was Emily Grierson versus society. The protagonist in the story was the town in which Emily lived in. Society expected her to behave in a certain way; like a lady because of the family background she came from. She apparently was raised in a wealthy family. The town saw Emily as “a fallen monument” after her death (414). When she was alive, the town thought of her as “a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town”(414 ...