... to her funeral..." (pg. 28) The town also knew the person who was the exact opposite of Emily-Homer Barron. Homer Barron, the Yankee played an important part in A Rose for Emily. He was Emily's lover and represented the North. The North in comparison to the South, was less traditional. He lived ... the fast life of constant movement and change. He seemed unwilling to consider the possibility of defeat neither by tradition nor by time. He didn't like to settle in one place like Emily ... father. Homer was a man's man in the way that he liked the company of friends and alcohol-very typic...

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... themes are especially evident in the short stories, "A Rose For Miss Emily," "Barn Burning." 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 the ravages of war only symbolize the consequences of inward decay" (Vickery 13). In "A Rose for Emily," the color yellow, used frequently as an adjective, ... symbolizes this deathly decay. By denying social changes instead of embracing them, the southern aristocrats were, in essence, their own worst enemy, for this self-de...

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... generally there is more that just a story, rather the story is a tool used to get a different point across. Beneath the surface of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," it tells a story of the Old South's lingering presence in a more modern time. After being the only man in her life, by not allowing any ... and mores of a society that was crushed by both the war and its eventual defeat for example when Miss Emily is referred to as a "Fallen Monument"(p87) representing the falling of a part of the old southern culture (A Rose for Emily). This story, on the exterior appears to be little m...

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Metaphorical Functions of Setting in "A Rose for Emily" and "Soldier's Home" Although in both William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," the settings are the times, places, and social environments that frame the characters, the context in which these stories occur actually become the story, in a ... understanding the characters which they enclose. These metaphorical functions serve to tie the two stories together, as the setting exists as the antagonist. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is set in the 1930's in a region known as the "Old South," and that is th...

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