"A Rose for Emily" takes place after the Civil War in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi a town very similar to the one William Faulkner spent most of his life. It is a story of the conflict between the old and the new South. Emily and the things around her represent the dying old traditions and the present is represented through Homer Barron and the new board of aldermen. The issue of racism also runs throughout the story. Many of Faulkner's stories take place in Yoknapatawpha County a fictional place patterned after his familiar surrounding and childhood home of Oxford, Mississippi. Jo…
