A Rose For Emily New South vs. Old
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A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" tells the story of a young woman who is violated
by her father's strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily's father died and she
found it difficult to let go. Emily was raised during the pre-civil war era. Like her father, Emily
possessed a stubborn outlook towards life, and refused to change. Emily could have been seen as
a representative of
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the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at battle of Jefferson," (Faulkner, ). She dies long after those soldiers yet is added amongst their ranks. She was an anachronistic figure in the new south that formed after the Civil War. A person thrown into a time that pushed her and her beliefs aside in order to progress.
the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at battle of Jefferson," (Faulkner, ). She dies long after those soldiers yet is added amongst their ranks. She was an anachronistic figure in the new south that formed after the Civil War. A person thrown into a time that pushed her and her beliefs aside in order to progress.