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novels, the town of Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. In terms of plot, Faulkner focuses on the decline of his beloved Southern plantation society following the Civil War and
the oppression that still remained behind closed doors. "A Rose for Emily" illustrates how the American South, in its refusal to acknowledge change, had become its own worst enemy.
Aristocracy did not go quietly in Jefferson, and its ghost lived on in the Grierson home, which had become little more than a museum that housed the ancient artifacts
of a bygone culture. Characters, both major and minor, are introduced to the reader in a series of random, conversational flashbacks, by a third-person narrator (possibly a woman based on
the occasionally catty observations offered) who obviously has deeply personal insights into the town and its people. The narrator emerges as a major character because everyone else is seen
through his or her eyes. The protagonist mentioned in the title is Miss Emily Grierson, a spinster who had lived a sequestered life caring for her father to the
exclusion of everything and everyone else. Like the ancestors that preceded her, Miss Emily possessed a self-important sense of entitlement. Her neighbors believed she never married because "none
of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when her father died, leaving her with virtually nothing except a crumbling old house upon which
taxes were owed did Emily become "humanized" in the minds of the townspeople (Faulkner 437). Before, she represented a painful reminder to them of the Old South as it
once was, where a woman was viewed as a child capable of being little more than the belle of the ball. Even though Mr. Grierson died two years earlier,
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