A Rose for Emily By William Faulkner :: Free Essay Writer

After the Civil War, galore(postnominal) Confederate soldiers returned home and founded nothing and legion(predicate) had no place to stay. more people that graven image was punishing them for all the sins that they had done to the blacks. But legion(predicate) other Southerners refuse to exact that they were defeated by the Union. Instead, they thought that God spared them for something more important. So, they thought of the war as a lost agent and they interpreted it as a stepping stone to the Souths salvation. This is the feeling in manuscript where " A Rose for Emily," takes place. In, " A Rose for Emily," daughter Emily portrays the Old South, not wanting to give up on the good old ages. As the people of Jefferson portrays how the South wants to move on to bigger and better things. Miss Emily Grierson lives in the pasted, and she did not want ot change at all. As time and things change, Miss Emily stayed the same. She was so much like the Old South th at she had a black as a servant. Many people thought of her as," a tradition, a duty, and a care sort of hereditary obligation upon the town."(Faulkner 73) That is why she did not make water to pay any taxes. The Mayor of Jefferson in 1894, Colonel Satoris declared that she did not have to pay taxes. But as time expire and new generations of mayors came they tried to maker pay her taxes. Miss Emily refuse, she says, "I have no taxes in Jefferson."(Faulkner 73) This how Miss Emily impersonate the Old South. She refuses to forget nigh the past as did the South and does not want to accept the position that things are changing. After the defeat of the South in the Civil War, many people would not accept the changes that comes with defeat. Many people would fight to economise as much of their past in the South as the victors of the uniting would allow. This is how Miss Emily felt when her overprotect and Homer died. She did not want to accept the fact that her fat her was dead, and when the ladies tried to come to condole her, she said " her father was not dead.