of these rely solely on hints found within the story. I believe that his life can also help

one analyze this story. By knowing that Faulkner?s strongest influence was his

independent mother, one can guess that Miss Emily Grierson?s character was based

William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897.

His family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when Faulkner was five years old (Larinde). His

parents were Murry and Maud Falkner (Zane 2). Faulkner added the ?u? to his last name

on his Royal Air Force application for unknown reasons (5).

Faulkner?s great-grandfather, Colonel William C. Falkner had moved from Tennessee to

the Mississippi Delta in 1841. The Colonel was a Civil War hero, plantation owner,

railroad builder, and even a writer (Larinde). Faulkner?s grandfather and father were

both respected, though not wealthy. They were also both alcoholics.

Faulkner and his father never had a very good relationship. He and his mother, though,

were very close. Maud gave him his love of art and literature. She influenced Faulkner

Faulkner has used sexual deviation to indicate the decay of an old South tradition?

younger men in the Elks? Club?that he was not a marrying man? (Faulkner 181). She

Emily lived completely in the past. She told the new Board of Alderman that Colonel

e else with her strong independence (Zane 3-4). She may have been

Hal Blythe provides a surprising motive for why Miss Emily Grierson murdered Homer

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