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In three pages this paper examines how William Faulkner thematically expresses death in his famous short story, ‘A Rose for Emily,’ and how it conveys the overall message that the death of protagonist Emily Grierson also signified the death of the antebellum Southern aristocracy. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
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After the war, most Southerners collectively mourned the loss of their culture, identity, and genteel way of life. However, some Southerners preferred living in a state of denial
and sought solace in memories of the antebellum past. Faulkner offered his elegy in his popular short story, "A Rose for Emily," that was first published in 1930 in
Forum magazine and included three years later in the short story collection, These 13. The theme of death is ever-present throughout the story, and is expressed in terms of
character (the protagonist), plot, and in symbolism. Jefferson, Mississippis Miss Emily Grierson seemed to be the lone caretaker of the Old South. In fact, one of her neighbors -
the storys third-person narrator - observed that when she died, "Our whole town went to her funeral" (Faulkner 443). However, this was more out of a sense of curiosity
than to pay their respects to the last member of one of the towns most respected families. Ever since her fathers death, Emily had been a virtual recluse, seldom
leaving the house she shared with her devoted black servant. Emily Grierson felt out of place in the modern world and so she retreated into security of the family
homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Civil War, it was likely a grand estate and the site of many
local gatherings, but now it was described as representing "stubborn and coquettish decay... an eyesore among eyesores" (Faulkner 443). Like Miss Emily herself, the house did not belong in
the contemporary Jefferson landscape of the twentieth century. Everything the house and the people who lived in it stood for had passed on a long time ago. The death
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