attempted to do when he moved his family to England for a time), but you could never

take the South out of William Faulkner. He lived it, breathed it and suffered for it as he

carried with him all of his life the image of the once proud Southern aristocracy, of which

his family had been esteemed members, disintegrated following the Civil War. The

deterioration of the Southern plantation society, the feelings of rage at a lost culture (and

innocence) and the predator (master) and prey (slave) mentality which still existed in the

South were common threads woven throughout the tapestry of Faulkner's writings, and

these themes are especially evident in the short stories, "A Rose For Miss Emily," "Barn

William Faulkner blamed the wealthy social elite of old for much of the South's

ills, insisting "that the aristocratic south is responsible for its own degeneration and that

him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt" (Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" 443).

Emily Grierson was dead, and she took what was left of the old South with her.

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