In the story "A Rose for Emily" setting is a central idea that is used in the telling and understanding of Miss Emily Grierson. Setting of Jefferson, a city set in the Deep South confederate in the late 1800s to a changing and more modern early 1900s. Being from the Deep South, women were suppressed in a way that men had the say so in the house and women's rights were non-existent. Her father, being of a man of significant power had control of Miss Emily Grierson as stated in the author's description, "Emily a slender woman in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip." Mr. Grierson's dominance over Emily carries on over to her relationships. The same mentality of a male role figure is still instilled in her stemming from the time in which she is living.
             Jefferson is a city in the south set during the late 1800s after the civil war and goes on into the early 1900s. Her family had made a name for themselves in this community early on. Emily's father has supposedly no have to pay taxes ever again for life. The townspeople seem to look at her as a "monument" (2), an almost aristocratic family. Townspeople seem to be involved in Emily's Life in a nondirect way. They always have an opinion in the decision she makes or speculates about what she may or may not do. As time progresses the older generation dies off and a new generation begins to take reins of the city. With the new mayors and alderman they seek answers as to why she still pays now taxes. Emily also changes; she becomes old, fat and not as attractive as time progresses. To Emily there is no concept of time by saying this to the alderman about her taxes, "I pay no taxes in Jefferson, see Colonel Sartoris. " Colonel Sartoris has been dead almost ten years. This is an example of how setting is a direct manner of setting ...