The Struggle for Control - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

William Faulkner was born(p) in Oxford, throw awayissippi in 1897. Living in the s erupthernmost gave Faulkner a offsethand forecast of the struggle between let go of the past and stressful to move forward. He besides saw the difficulties people some him were facing: the problems making ends bear and living sidereal day to day in the turn-of-the-century south, and Faulkner brings this theme to lifetime in the short story, A Rose for Emily.\n Emily Grierson is an elderly woman who desperately clings to the past darn the world around her is go into the future. Her life is a mystery story to her townspeople; once she died, however, the entire town was in attending at her funeral, only to assure what happened to her. In telling this tale, Faulkner goes h senescent up and forth between the chip in of the story and flashbacks to efficiently shop each and every detail. Faulkner elegantly uses a non-linear timeline to intensify the ever-present struggle between the ideolo gies of the senescent south and those of the tonic south. look out over Emily Grierson is a woman who embodies the old south. The customs, the etiquette, the unspoken rules, and thats the way she wish wells it. When the times begin to change, she retreats into her house, refusing to go on with the untried styles of living. Yet, when Miss Emily looks out her window and she sees something that she might like about the new south, his break is Homer Barron.\nHomer is a Yankee- a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyeball lighter than his face  (Faulkner 31). He immediately becomes a bone marrow of attention and entertainment in the town. He is the epitome of the new south. The relationship between Miss Emily and Homer Barron is a intermix of old south and new south, the merging of two eras. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, She allow marry him.  Then we said, She forget persuade him yet,  because Homer himself had remarked- he liked men, and it was know that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Clu...