In the story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, the beginning is set with the death of Emily Grierson. The setting that Faulkner uses with the place and the time, allows the reader to get a better understanding of Miss Emily's lonely world. It is the understanding that this sets the mood for the reader and with this style of writing allows the reader to keep remembering the beginning on what the result will be, and the reasons behind it while they read on. When Faulkner explains the towns people and how insensitive, and nosy they can be, it makes the reader wonder, do they care for her at all or just have nothing better to talk about in this small town of theirs. The women walk into her house after her death more in wonderment and interest than in mourning. "Our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house." (William Faulkner pg315 Literature and the Writing Process) With this, Faulkner represents the way that Miss Emily had been treated by her town, why would they have come to see her after her death and not while she was alive, maybe because it was in this time era that out of respect for the deceased that you come and pay your condolences. "The day after his death (meaning her father) all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom." (William Faulkner Pg317 Literature and the Writing Process) Faulkner states that the men came out of respect, but how much could they have respected her, when they would come in the middle of the night to place lime around her house because her house had an offensive aroma around it. Maybe there were a few older men that did respect her that knew her before her fathers death, but the up and coming men that did not know of her but what had been told to them by others really could not have respected her very much, maybe they came o...