Analysis of “A Rose for Emily”

“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity…..” (Kirszner & Mandell, Pp. 70).

Summary of “A Rose for Emily”

The main theme of William Faulkner short story "Rose for Emily" is "held in the past." Emily's world has all time been a piece of the ...