Plot is described as the author's arrangement of incidents in a story. The plot is also what controls the order of events in a story. Without the plot, a story would not have any structure and there would be irrelevant information left in the story. What is left has meaning as the author brings the important information into focus by selecting and organizing the events that make up the story's plot.
             There are different types of plot that an author can use. It is the author's choice on which plot is the best to use for the story that they are writing. A chronological arrangement is one example of plot. This is where the author begins with what happened first, then second, and continues on this way until the end of the story. An example of this is "Rip Van Winkle". Another example is "in medias", which is a Latin term and refers to when a story starts in the middle of events. Immediately the reader is in the middle of a situation which can eventually create the conflict in the story.
             In the story, "A Rose for Emily", the author William Faulkner chooses not to use any of the above examples of plot. Faulkner did not place the events in the story in chronological order. Instead he arranged the events back and fourth between past and present, jumping from the end, to the beginning, then to the middle and so on. Faulkner chose this method of plot to provide information that eventually leads up to the final surprise ending.
             William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a classic because of the way he chose to use plot in the story. He could have used another plot method that would have been sufficient. However, it is the structure of the plot that leads the reader to a suspenseful ending that makes "A Rose for Emily" a great story.
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