LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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William Faulkner
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William Folkmer
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William the great
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William Revillame
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Detailed explanation-1: -"A Rose for Emily” is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published on April 30, 1930, in an issue of The Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner’s fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, in the equally fictional county of Yoknapatawpha.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: William Faulkner’s purpose for writing “A Rose for Emily” is to confront how the Old South influenced the New South, making it difficult for the South to fully escape its racist past. Emily exhibits the values of the Old South while the town of Jefferson is modernizing.
Detailed explanation-3: -She was a martyr of the lost south. Faulkner gave Emily the rose to salute her for her irrevocable tragedy; the readers give her the rose to salute her for her adamancy as well as her suffering.
Detailed explanation-4: -In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily, ” the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson, is focalized and narrated by a townsperson, apparently an individual, but one who always speaks as ‘we.