In the short story "A Rose for Emily," (1930) William Faulkner presents Miss Emily's instable state of mind through a missed sequence of events. Faulkner arranges the story in ... ideas" comes along, Miss Emily refuses to accept them (1009). Miss Emily's mixed feeling about the past is reflected in the structure of the story. Unlike most stories, the narrator does not continue the plot with the next chronological event rather presents one that happened two years earlier. This switch once again mirrors Miss Emily's unclear ... Emily's great aunt, old lady Wyatt, suggests that Miss Emily's craz...

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