A Vision of Death

Identifying the conflict and the role it plays brings out the plot through the setting of a story. In "A Rose for Emily" the author uses that method, but he did it a little differently. William Faulkner did not start the story "A Rose for Emily" like an average story starts off. William Faulkner took a different approach in the structure of "A Rose for Emily" by using the plot to foreshadow the rest of story. In "A Rose for Emily" the setting can be identified by the social and man-made aspects, the conflict, and the plot.
To begin, the primary setting happened socially through the people in the town. The town is a symbol by foreshadowing the rest of Emily's life. In the introduction, the town talked about Emily's funeral and ended with how she lived her life before she died. Also, the town played a big role socially because it was small and everyone knew everyone's business. After Emily's father died her life gradually went downhill. She used to be slender and pretty, but she changed...