Analysis Of A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner

Bakari Copeland Bonni Miller Intro to Fiction – ENGL 204 December 15, 2015 1. Choose one story in which the setting is significant and discuss how the setting contributes to the central meaning of the story. In William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily, the southern town’s setting is a stark contrast to today’s society, where many elderly people live in poverty, receive little respect, and lose their family homes due to the inability to pay taxes. After the death of her father forty years earlier, Emily Grierson’s social and financial status plunged to the point where she was totally dependent on the good will of others to survive. In an act of mercy, or what the narrator refers to as â€Å"a tradition, a duty, and a care† (Faulkner 219), Miss Emily was exempt from property taxes from the time of her father’s death until her own death almost forty years later. 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