William Faulker'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 dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily
was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes
place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of
the South. Like her father, Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards
life and refuses to change. This short story explains Emily, her mystified
ways and the townsfolk's sympathetic curiosity.
The plot of the story is mainly about Miss Emily's attitude about
change. "On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came
and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter asking her to call the
sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her
herself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a
note on paper of an......

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Title: A Rose For Emily
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