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

After the courteous War, many Confederate s some epoch(a)iers returned home and founded nothing and many had no set up to stay. Many people that God was punishing them for all the sins that they had done to the blacks. unless many other southwarderners refuse to digest that they were defeated by the Union. Instead, they fancy that God spared them for something more important. So, they thought process of the war as a wooly-minded cause and they interpreted it as a stepping stone to the Souths salvation. This is the feeling in Mississippi where " A Rose for Emily," takes place. In, " A Rose for Emily," Miss Emily portrays the sexagenarian South, not fatalitying to give up on the good old times. As the people of Jefferson portrays how the South wants to move on to bigger and erupt 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 that she had a black as a servant. Many people thought of her as," a tradition, a duty, and a care sort of hereditary engagement upon the town."(Faulkner 73) That is why she did not have to pay any taxes. The Mayor of Jefferson in 1894, Colonel Satoris declared that she did not have to pay taxes. But as time pass 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 jam about the past as did the South and does not want to accept the fact that things are changing. After the defeat of the South in the cultured War, many people would not accept the changes that comes with defeat. Many people would chip to preserve as much of their past in the South as the victors of the North would allow. This is how Miss Emily felt when her father and Homer died. She did not want to accept the fact that her father was dead, and when the ladies tried to come to condole her, she give tongue to " her father was not dead.