William Falkner was born on September 25, 1897 in the town of New Albany, Mississippi. William was a high school dropout, but he had an infatuation with literature and one day dreamed of being a poet. He ended up turning into an accomplished fiction writer. Faulkner had a desire to make it into the military. Since the American military wouldn't take him because of his short stature, Faulkner added the "u" to his name when he joined the British Army. "He thought it sounded more British that way. Faulkner used pieces of his own life and family history in his fiction" (Akers 248). William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" depicts Emily's futile attempts to remain unchanged in a constantly mutable world.
             William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" shows Emily's struggle to conjoin the past and the present. The story is told by a narrator who is portrayed as an average citizen in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. The opening event is the death of character Miss Emily Grierson. Then the story flashes back through Emily's life starting with her father's death. The next event is the introduction of character Homer Barron, a Yankee. It goes on to show the evolution of the relationship with Homer and Emily. All of the townspeople think the two get married until Emily goes and buys arsenic and Homer goes missing. The next time the town sees Emily, she is getting older. She started to give china-painting lessons to the young females of the town for six or seven years. After that, the door did not open again until her funeral. After this, the story fast forwards to Emily's funeral. After she was dead and buried, some men from the town went into an upstairs room that had been deserted for forty years. In it, they found Homer's corpse and one of Emily's strands of gray hair. "She keeps him tucked away in a seldom used, rose colored ro...