1.

Author
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and
short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County,
Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is
one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is widely considered
the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner’s reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century is
largely due to his highly experimental style. Faulkner was a pioneer in literary
modernism, dramatically diverging from the forms and structures traditionally used
in novels before his time. Faulkner often employs stream-of-consciousness narrative,
discards any notion of chronological order, uses multiple narrators, shifts between
the present and past tense, and tends toward impossibly long and complex
sentences. Not surprisingly, these stylistic innovations make some of Faulkner’s
novels incredibly challenging to the reader. However, these bold innovations paved
the way for countless future writers to continue to experiment with the possibilities
of the English language. For his efforts, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1949, the highest prize that can be awarded to a writer.
2. Summary
“A Rose for Emily” is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first
published on April 30, 1930. This story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city,
Jefferson, in his fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. It was
Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.
A Rose for Emily recounts the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson. An
unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her odd
relationships with her father and her lover, the Yankee road worker Homer Barron.
She is seen buying arsenic, which the townspeople believe she will use to commit
suicide with. After this, Homer Barron is not heard from again, and is assumed to
have returned north.
Though she does not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continue to
gossip about Emily and her eccentricities, citing her family's history. She is heard
from less and less, and rarely ever leaves her home. Unbeknownst to the
townspeople until her death, hidden in her upstairs bedroom is Homer's corpse. This
explains the horrid stench that emitted from Miss Emily's house 40 years previously.
By finding a single gray hair in the bed, the townspeople discover that Emily had
been sleeping with the corpse.
3. Plot
+Exposition:
Story opens with the huge funeral of Emily Grierson. The Funeral prompts the
narrator to talk about the last time anymore had been to Emily house and events
that led up to that date. This leads to a story of Emily’s tax evasion.
+Rising Action:
Miss Emily refused to pay her taxes.
Miss Emily’s house smelled awful and the townspeople complained. 
The townspeople decide to put lime around her house to remove the smell. 
Mr. Grierson dies but she doesn’t accept that he is dead.
Emily meets Homer Barron and begins to have a relationship with him, the
townspeople gossip about Emily and Barron’s affair.
 As rumors are spreading about Emily and Barron’s affair, Barron admits that he
“isn’t the marrying type” .
+Climax:
Emily buys Arsenic from the drug store. The Pharmacist asks what the poison
would be used for, as it is legal protocol. Emily refuses to state a reason. When Emily
receives the Arsenic, it is labeled “for rats”.
+Falling action:
Minister visits and cousins were sent to her house. Cousin left leaves, two days
later Barron came 
Barron disappeared two years after Mr. Grierson’s death and the smell appears.
Alderman came comes to collect taxes Emily refuses.
Emily stops and doesn’t appear again for over ten years.
+Resolution:
Emily dies at 74 years old. 
Tobe opened the door and disappeared forever
The cousin came and prepared for the funeral. The townspeople were curious
and decided to explore her house. They found Barron's body and Emily's hair next to
it.
4. Setting
+Time:
After American Civil War (1861 – 1865)
The town of Jefferson as a urban society moving into industrial period
Before seventies, economic based on agriculture and slavery
After seventies, economic based on industrial
+Timeline and changes
Estimated era: 1861 -1933
1861 – Miss Emily Grierson is born
1870s – The Grierson house is built
1893 – Miss Emily‘s father dies
1893 – Miss Emily falls ill
1893 – Miss Emily‘s taxes are remitted (in December)
1894 – Miss Emily meets Homer Barron (in the summer)
1895 – Homer is last seen entering Miss Emily’s house
1895 – The townspeople become concerned about the smell of the smell of the
Grierson house and sprinkle lime around Emily’s place
1895 – Miss Emily stays in for six months
1895 –1898 – Miss Emily emerges and her hair gradually turns gray
1899 – Miss Emily stops opening her door and doesn’t leave the house for about
five years
1904 – Miss Emily emerges to give china – painting lessons for about seven years
1911 – Mss Emily stops giving painting lessons. Over ten years pass before she
has any contact with the town
1925 – They “ newer generation” comes to ask about the taxes. This is the last
contact she has with the town before her death
1935 – Miss Emily dies at 74 years old. Tobe leaves the house. Two days later
the funeral is held at the Grierson house. Homer's skeleton is discovered in a room in
Emily's house that has been closed off for 40 years.
 PLACE SETTING
The fictional story sets in Jefferson City in the South, Mississippi, tells of the
tragedies of an aristocratic woman named Emily, a lady from the Grierson family.
The location setting of this story is a town in Southern Mississippi that
represents traditionalists, rejecting modern change and industrialization during this
period. The people of this City are curious but not welcoming to strangers, who bring
the momentum of progress to this place.
This conflict also exists among the people of the town, when the new
government requires Emily to pay taxes according to her new obligations but forces
her to live up to the old noblesse oblige (not to marry a day laborer)
PLACE DETAILS IN STORY
The details of this place are mentioned in part 1 of the story with the emotions
of the narrator, suggesting the old, dark, poor atmosphere of the main character, an
old noblewoman. who tries to preserve the dignity of the Grierson family
The detail of the place shows the loneliness, poverty, but pride of Ms. Emily
even after her death
Detail of the place with a dark and scary feeling when the final secret about
Emily killing Barron and living with his body is finally revealed
Social Conditions
The story takes place in the town after the American Civil War.nThere is two
perspective related to the American Civil War.
The town changes, progresses, grows and moves into the industrial period and
modernizes and its people change too. 
Miss Emily and her house remain the same. Miss Emily is old generation and
slavery. The house in which she lives remains static and unchanged when the town
progresses.