Identifying the conflict and the role it plays brings out the plot through the setting of a story. In "A Rose for Emily" the author uses that method, but he did it a little differently. William Faulkner did not start the story "A Rose for Emily" like an average story starts off. William Faulkner took a different approach in the structure of "A Rose for Emily" by using the plot to foreshadow the rest of story. In "A Rose for Emily" the setting can be identified by the social and man-made aspects, the conflict, and the plot.
             To begin, the primary setting happened socially through the people in the town. The town is a symbol by foreshadowing the rest of Emily's life. In the introduction, the town talked about Emily's funeral and ended with how she lived her life before she died. Also, the town played a big role socially because it was small and everyone knew everyone's business. After Emily's father died her life gradually went downhill. She used to be slender and pretty, but she changed to a fat, unattractive woman. The town pitied Emily because the changes she went through were not expected of her. From then on they saw her as "Poor Emily ". That was basically how Emily became a subject to their attention.
             Next, the man-made setting was the house Emily stayed in. You can say that the house was also like a character too. It showed the changes Emily went through by changing physical. When her father was alive the house was well kept and in good shape on the outside and in the inside. When her father died, the house started to change its looks. The leather started cracking, there was an okward smell, and things started to tarnish, and the house started to detearate. The town people complained especially about the smell coming from the house. The judge ordered to have the house cleaned, but they thought that might insult her by saying she smells bad. So, they broke in her house through the ce...