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In three pages this paper contrasts and compares these short stories with the emphasis upon the importance of community in each. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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distinctive regional Mississippi flair. Communities were united by old traditions and customs. Men were expected to be genteel and protective of women while their feminine counterparts were relics
from a bygone era of plantation balls. In stark contrast were the urban New York City roots of Toni Cade Bambara, where communities were often subdivided into neighborhoods defined
either by ethnic or religious ties. Two of these American authors most famous short stories - Faulkners "A Rose for Emily" and Bambaras "The Lesson" - reveal the important
role community has always played in regional history of America. So important is the community of Jefferson, Mississippi in William Faulkners "A Rose for Emily" that it serves as
the storys collective narrator. It is clear that the community observations about the elusive Miss Emily Grierson are of a lower socioeconomic class. Their curiosity, envy, and disdain
are immediately established by Faulkner in the opening sentence, "WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for
a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house" (433). Emily Grierson is regarded by the community as an oddity, "a tradition,
a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She was a painful reminder of the pre-Civil War glory days, and the decay
of her onetime magnificent Southern mansion represents the community decay that had begun with the Confederate defeat and had continued virtually unabated well into the twentieth century. Miss Emily
had special privileges other members of the community did not enjoy. For example, when Colonel Sartoris was mayor of Jefferson many years earlier, he had arranged for her not
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