In the story "A Rose For Emily" William Faulkner portrays two types of conflicts. The readers through the author’s eye encounter these conflicts. An individual that reads this story can see the different conflicting situations that arise in this story. Emily’s conflicts within herself and the community’s conflicts towards her are the two main conflicts in this story. The conflicts within herself are more prominent than what she had with the community …showed first 75 words of 669 total…

…showed last 75 words of 669 total…was the fact that she was living in her past. In conclusion we can see that the conflicts with in herself and the constant disapproval of the community made Miss Emily mentally ill and put her into a very insatiable state of mind. Emily is an embodiment of "a fallen monument" which is secret and terrible and William Faulkner very well succeeds in giving the reader a clear picture of these conflicts throughout the story.