Analysis of "A Rose For Emily"
             William Faulkner was born in 1897 and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He studied for a while at the University of Mississippi. He also worked as the postmaster in Oxford until he was fired when people stopped receiving their mail. During World War I he moved to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but the war ended before he was given a chance to fight. The only "war injury" he received was an injured leg that resulted for Faulkner's excessive drinking on Armistice Day. After the war, Faulkner ended up in New Orleans as a reporter for the local newspaper. While in New Orleans, he met the novelist Sherwood Anderson who inspired him to become a novelist himself. Faulkner spent most of the rest of his life working as a novelist. He died July 6, 1962 of a heart attack at the age of 65.
             Although Faulkner is most famous for his novels, he has also written many acclaimed short stories as well. His most famous short story "A Rose For Emily" is a shocking account of a woman's life in Jefferson, Mississippi. The story starts as the narrator tells the reader that the main character, Miss Emily Greirson, has finally passed away. The narration then shifts to a flashback of the kind of life Miss Emily led and the way she was perceived by the townspeople of Jefferson. While the general opinion of Miss Emily is that she is an aristocrat, in reality she is a deranged woman tormented by the memory of her over-protective father. The truth about Miss Emily is revealed in the final part of the story when the narration shifts back to the present and Miss Emily's husband's body is found in an upstairs bedroom where he has been kept since their wedding night.
             Even though Emily is viewed by the public as an aristocratic woman because of her separation from society and her families statue in the community, this isolation proves to be very dangerou...