How does Faulkner direct and shape the reader's reaction's to the story?
             Faulkner takes advantage of flashbacks while he is constructing his narrative in order to accomplish a great effect of suspense. First, the narrator presents some fictional facts that provide verisimilitude to the short story. The narrative starts when Miss Emily dies. Then the narrator, which is a third person one, introduces the community's readings of Miss Emily, also talking about the behavior of this community in relation to her. Furthermore, he introduces the second fact, no one except an old manservant had seen inside her house in at least ten years before her death. Once the reader is informed of these two statements, the narrator begins with the flashbacks, mixing them with present descriptions in a stream of consciousness, or in a stream of memories, that leads the reader to feel sympathy for Miss Emily due to her loneliness and due to the fact it was hard for her to live by herself in the south of USA on a period of time when people were so conservative and prejudiced. Therefore, she became the live monument to conservative and prejudiced actions herself. At the time, evidences start to appear and reveal how Miss Emily reacted to the world, disregarding laws and people. The scenes are mixed up, combining past and present facts. Thus, Faulkner also mingles the protagonist feelings trying to mislead the reader to believe in other possibilities than the ending he creates for the short story.
             Above all, she could stand for conflict. Miss Emily, according to the short story, represented the fight against the progress and the development. She was an ancient monument representing the old USA southern traditions of the wealthy families. While around her all changed including values and people, she did not admit changes. Her big house was the symbol of that mental fight. For it could not develop as the other con
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