"A rose for Emily" reveals William Faulkner's highly technical style of writing. The motif of the story can be understood in several different ways such as cultural conflict between Southern and Northern America or as conflict between old and New generations. However there is more than that which author is trying to induce from this piece of work. The quality of "A rose for Emily" is heightened when this literary work is understood as a product that is handling not only the conflicts, but more of a fundamental problems of mankind. This is clearly deduced from one of his speech;
             The primary job that any writer faces is to tell a story, a story out of human experience- I mean by that, universal mutual experience, the anguished and troubles and griefs of the human heart, which is universal (without regard to race or time or condition)
             From "A rose for Emily", Faulkner makes it possible for readers to think about these problems by his profound writing style in the way of setting the narrator and in the use of symbols.
             He sets the third person narrator observing the character and the incidents in the object point of view. The narrator is anonymous resident of Jefferson, Mississippi, who is aware of Griersons as a family who are strictly aristocratic. Thus the point of view of the narrator is tightly fixed as other residents in observing Miss Emily. This work as a factor emphasizing the theme.
             Because the narrator is only telling what is seen and heard from one of the resident point of view, not being able to read or get to know Emily's inner thoughts and real characteristic, more of creative and critical thoughts are possible for the readers to have. According to the narrator she 'had been a tradition (that no longer need or worth), a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation' (p.30) that no one asked her question or challenged in what she was doing. For instance, people could not argue with her not paying tax, with a
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