A ROSE FOR EMILY

A Rose for Emily



A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

The main theme of William Faulkner short story "Rose for Emily" is "held in the past." Emily Grierson world has all time been a piece of the past, even when we were to go into her life, she would move away into the security that she was aware, in the past.

Living in the past, is a concept that people still feel every day. This is not bad, as the concept of how long a person can accept, and move with changes in the modern world. The adoption ...