“A Rose for Emily” In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, the reader is introduced into an “upside down” way of exposing the plot. The author chooses to open the story with the setting as the main character’s (Emily Grierson) funeral. The beginning paragraph gives an overall description of the townspeople and their reason for attending the funeral, thus clueing the reader in that Emily lived in a small town. …showed first 75 words of 1135 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1135 total…he had passed on. After reading the story we have to wonder if Faulkner was just trying to display a woman who could no longer take care of herself and to her killing this man was a victory or a “rose”, or do we believe the same about her self worth, but that she found that she could never love another man because of her father, otherwise because he was not her father. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**