Rose for Emily

            
             "Thus she passed from generation to generation "dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse- (Faulkner 80).
             William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897 and died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962. Faulkner began his writing career in his early twenties and continued to write throughout his life. Though he had his ups and downs, as any writer does, in 1931 he wrote "A Rose for Emily,"" which seemed to spark his successful writing career that won him many awards including a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.
             "A Rose for Emily- portrays Miss Emily Grierson's, a physiologically unstable lady, life from her youth to her death. Growing up in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, Emily was over protected from the outside by her Father, a presumably prominent man in their town. After her Father's death in 1888, she meets Homer Barron (Moore 203). After being courted by Mr. Barron for some time, Miss Emily begins to fall in "love,"" but when she realizes that Mr. Barron might not feel the same way about her she poisons the man. While no one in the town notices him missing, Miss Emily continues to give china-painting lessons until she gets to be around forty. From then until her death in 1930, Miss Emily Grierson stays inside and is rarely seen by any of the townspeople (Moore 203). .
             Although he is at times intentionally ambiguous, Faulkner can be conversely minutely precise with his diction without diminishing his secrecy. An example of this precision is the sentence from "A Rose for Emily" discussed in Alice Hall Petry's article: "Thus she passed from generation to generation "dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse" (Faulkner 80). In this sentence Faulkner summarizes Emily Grierson's character and her relationship with her community in five adjectives. While probably overlooked by the casual reader, Petry explores how closer examination reveals Faulkner's organization and manipulation of language.