A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is about a girl named Emily Grierson who throughout the story becomes increasingly insane. In the story Emily is robbed of a life by her father, robbed of love by a Yankee, and robbed of her reputation by the town. Faulkner uses setting, foreshadowing, and characterization of Emily to trace Miss Emily’s increasing dementia. Faulkner uses an elaborate setting to …showed first 75 words of 746 total…

…showed last 75 words of 746 total…piece of “iron-gray hair”(342). For forty years Miss Emily had been sleeping with Homer’s dead body. Throughout the story William Faulkner uses setting and foreshadowing to the reader the inner workings of a mentally disturbed woman. Emily had been robbed of a life by the two men she loved the most. Her father robbed her of a normal adolescence. Homer robbed her of love. This story tells the tragic life of a young woman.