Clinging to the Past in Faulkners A Rose for Emily :: A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner

Clinging to the Past in Faulkners A Rose for Emily The end of the American cultivated War also signified the end of the Old Souths era of greatness. The south is depicted in many stories of Faulkner as a region where the human race and myth are difficult to separate(Unger 54). Many southern battalion refused to accept that their conditions had changed, even though they had bitterly realized that the old eld were gone. They kept and cherished the precious memories, and in a fatal and measly attempt to maintain the glory of the South people tend to stay to old values, customs, and the faded, but glorified representatives of the past. spend Emily was one of those selected representatives. The people in the southern small-town, where the story takes place, put her on a throne kinda of throwing her in jail where she in reality belonged. The folks in town, unconsciously manipulated by their strong nostalgia, became the accomplices of the obscene and insane Miss Emily. Faulkner tells the story in outset form plural, where the narrators represent the folks in town, which gives a feeling of that this comment is the general perception. One immediately gets involved in the story since they offshoot retell what actually happened and then add their own interpretations and assumptions. The double berth one gets invites to draw ones own conclusions from a more objective hint of view, which mine hopefully is Miss Emily was brought into the functionlight the same moment as her father died. Being the last remaining person from the high be Grierson family in town, she became the new ambassador of the old days. The people welcomed her with open arms, without actually knowing anything more about her than her admirable name. Her fathers death also meant that Miss Emilys unrevealed secret was brought into the grave. It is well known that insanity is a ancestral disposition, and Miss Emilys great-aunt, lady Wyatt, had gone absolutely crazy(80) before she passed a way(p) a couple of years earlier. Emilys father had since then dissociated from that branch of the family, as if to run away from a dishonorable influence. I believe that he was aware of her condition, and he therefore had kept her from social life and driven away the long road of suitors to prevent her from causing another scandal, which could spot his and his familys remaining reputation.