A Rose For Emily Literary Analysis

 Faulkner's famous and most well-liked short story, "A Rose for Emily" evokes the terms Southern gothic and the two types of writings in which the common tone is gloom, terror, and modest violence. The story is Faulkner's top example of the form because it contains unbelievably dark descriptions: a rotting mansion, a carcass, a massacre, a mystifying servant who disappear, and, most terrible of all, necrophilia — an erotic or sexual appeal to dead bodies.
 The contrast among the noble woman and her awful secrets forms the starting point of the story. Because the Griersons were held a little too high for who they really were, Miss Emily's father forbidden her from dating socially or at least the population thought so: "None of the youthful men were fairly good enough for Miss Emily." She became so terribly anxious for human affection that she kills Homer and clings to his deceased body. Using her upper-class position to wrap up the murder, mockingly she sentences herself to overall isolation from the society, embracing the

 One way of clearing up the brilliance of "A Rose for Emily" is by allowing for its need of chronological order. Such a categorization of the short tale originally might show to deteriorate it, but this loom allows us to observe Faulkner's brilliance at work — mostly his own, distinctive method of telling a story. Different from other writers of his time, like John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, who typically narrate their stories in a firmly linear sequence, Faulkner violates all sequential