In the short story " A Rose for Emily" William Faulkner presents Miss Emily's instable state of mind through a missed sequence of events. An author arranges the story in split time and introduces characters that contribute the development of Miss Emily's personality. The theme of isolation is also presented by Faulkner's descriptive words and symbolic images.
             The story is split in five sections. The first one begins with Miss Emily's funeral and moves on to her past. The author illustrates Miss Emily's as lady who does not want to accept new idea, as aspects and concepts of an existing time. It looks like after her father death she did not want to fallow new changes. Because, the primary figure in Miss Emily's life was her father. Who was an upper class figure, some of his ways of thinking has saddened Miss Emily's life. Miss Emily has always been kept in confined environments that only her father knows what she will do. This explains Miss Emily's behavior after her father's death as well as her reaction to another character, Homer Barron. Homer is the first lower-class person to reach Miss Emily after her father's death. While Miss Emily is still distressed by her father's death, Homer's love brings Miss Emily out of her sorrow. However, the news that Homer Barron is leaving town for other women pushes Miss Emily to have the confused personality she does.
             In the story the author use many details to express Miss Emily's isolation from town, but he also uses many descriptive words to suggest Miss Emily's separation from the modern society such as "coquettish decay", tarnished gold", nobles oblique" to
             describe the past. The author use words such as "coquettish decay" to illustrates the fact that Miss Emily house is different from the any other houses in the community. By using this expression the author wa
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