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Rose for Emily an Essay on Southern Society

Southern Society
In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” the focus is on Miss Emily and her Southern up bringing. In this story the Southern setting is vital to our understanding of Miss Emily and her ultimate mental collapse. In the South during Miss Emily’s life time for a woman not to be married was socially unacceptable. In Southern society during this time, and even today, it was encouraged and believed that to be happy it was necessary for one to be married. Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a classical example of Southern literature because of the importance of family, community, religion, time and place. Miss Emily represented the importance of all of these things on Southern society.
In this story the female protagonist, Miss Emily, is forced to conform to her father’s Southern societal values. Her family represented a monument of the past; Emily was referred to as a “fallen monument.”(75). She was a relic of Southern gentility and past ...

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