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In five pages this paper critically analyzes how Faulkner represents the death of the old Southern past through contrasts of past and present, and using characters as symbolism. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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and regaling him with tales of genteel Confederate soldiers and their courageous attempts to keep their slaves, their traditions, and their honor. Faulkner never tired of the Old South,
and naturally, like his ancestors he carried with him some residual bitterness over the outcome of the Civil War. The Old South was never quite the same after that,
and the intrusion of the Yankee carpetbaggers signified that change was inevitable, whether the residents wanted it or not. In his novels and short stories, William Faulkner became the
literary caretaker of the Old Southern culture he loved. He once admitted, "This struggle between the South and the North could have been a part of my background, my
experience" (Inge 20-21). Most of his works were set in the Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi town of Jefferson, a place in which the aging locals did their best to keep
time standing still. In Faulkners 1924 short story "A Rose for Emily," the grand old aristocracy was making its last stand at the home of Miss Emily Grierson.
Once a proud and stately home, it was beginning to show signs of decay much like its mistress, Miss Emily. In her literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A
Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for Emily" as "a story of the patriarchy" (35) with its narrator representing "the last of the patriarchs" (39).
The narrator could have been Faulkner himself, lamenting the slow deterioration and death of the Old South before his eyes in the 1920s. Faulkner conveys his message that the
death of his beloved pre-Civil War southern traditions was imminent through the conflict generated by contrasts of past and present, and through the masterful use of his characters as symbols.
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