In times of distress, trauma and uncertainly, many people find a comfort in familiar surroundings, where they can close out the world and relax. William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a sad tale of a well respected, strong, but lonely woman with a great sense of tradition suffering from an inability to accept change. Because of this inability to accept change, Emily ends up closing out the world from her life. Faulker's uses plot, characterization and point of view to portray how a life of loneliness can lead to lunacy.
             Plot is the arrangement of events that take place in the story which include an exposition, complicating incident, technical climax, dramatic climax, and resolution. The plot's stages can be traced throughout the story "A Rose for Emily". The exposition opens with the death of Miss Emily Grierson, the subject of the story. The fact that the story begins in medias res of the story is an example of manipulation of the chronological order of the story (Kirszner and Mandell 79). Another form of manipulating the order of when events are exposed is through the use of flashbacks. Faulkner relies on this to describe the events leading up to Emily's death and her refusal to accept the changing world around her. One example of this would be when the aldermen go to visit Emily to serve her with a notice of the taxes she owes. Faulkner writes, "So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell" (Kirszner and Mandell 93). Emily's family never had to pay taxes before so,despite the changing of mayors, Emily continue to refuse to change her ways and pay taxes. To further develop the plot, Emily had conflicts with some of the characters and herself as she continued to refuse to accept change. Because Emily was never able to develop any real relationship with anyone other than her father, her world completely crumbled around he...