A Review of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, has the incredible ability to show us the very depths of a human soul, psyche, thoughts which make up mankind. Every character seems to be a comment on some aspects of the society. (Clasius, 21) Most of the time he works on the themes of; human drama, the decay of the old South, racial prejudice by using some techniques like, "the distortion …

…an early Faulknerian portrait of a woman denied lives chances, a victim of the repression and destruction caused by the community. Her fight for survival and attempt to stop time distorts her. "A Rose for Emily" is a terrible tragedy of how the societal roles of women can lead them to do intolerable acts. The town of Jefferson causes Emily to do the things she does. In the end, they really got what they wanted.