The Struggle for Control - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

William Faulkner was natural in Oxford, overtopissippi in 1897. Living in the s step to the forehmost gave Faulkner a firstlyhand line of the struggle between permit go of the past and attempt to move forward. He as well saw the difficulties people almost him were facing: the problems making ends fill up and living sidereal day to day in the turn-of-the-century south, and Faulkner brings this theme to bread and butter in the short story, A Rose for Emily.\n Emily Grierson is an elderly muliebrity who desperately clings to the past magic spell the world around her is travel into the future. Her life is a riddle to her townspeople; once she died, however, the stainless town was in attention at her funeral, only to stop what happened to her. In telling this tale, Faulkner goes back up and forth between the express of the story and flashbacks to efficiently display each and every detail. Faulkner elegantly uses a non-linear timeline to intensify the present strug gle between the ideologies of the experient south and those of the stark naked south. devolve Emily Grierson is a woman who embodies the gaga south. The customs, the etiquette, the unspoken rules, and thats the way she ilks it. When the time begin to change, she retreats into her house, refusing to go on with the juvenile styles of living. Yet, when Miss Emily looks out her window and she sees something that she might like about the new south, his gain is Homer Barron.\nHomer is a Yankee- a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyeball lighter than his face  (Faulkner 31). He immediately becomes a essence of attention and entertainment in the town. He is the epitome of the new south. The relationship between Miss Emily and Homer Barron is a amalgamate of old south and new south, the merging of two eras. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, She go forth marry him.  Then we said, She willing persuade him yet,  because Homer himse lf had remarked- he liked men, and it was know that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Clu...