A rose for emily

            In the meaningful story of "A Rose for Emily- written by William Faulkner, Faulkner uses the physical, social settings, and time going to strengthen the impression and meaning of the characters. Every event that occurs parallel's with each other, such as the house, the town, and Emily, the most important of all in the story. Faulkner uses a third person narration and by doing that, it has an effect on the readers' perspective and judgement on Emily. The techniques used by Faulkner help us create a strong image of the meaning of Emily, and her personality by the using the setting. .
             The town of Jefferson plays a big part in shaping the meaning of Miss Emily. Faulkner uses the setting set during the post Civil war, by doing so the details help displays a good atmosphere of the town being quite wrecked while having a contrast with Miss Emily's new, young looking house. "Set on what had once been our most select street."" as demonstrated in this excerpt, her house looks as if it's standing strong and steady. With town gossiping, it is understandable that this reflects the town's value. The influential, disparaging, and tyrannical presence of the town has a big influence on what the people see Emily as, the meaning of her. The town doesn't exactly care about Emily, but yet at the same time they do in means of their curiosity, wanting to know what is in the house. " When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant-a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years."" .
             As Miss Emily declines her contact in the society "Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows "like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us."" The people want to know more and find out what's in her house.