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

William Faulkner was born in Oxford, multiple sclerosis in 1897. Living in the entropy gave Faulkner a firsthand account of the struggle amid letting go of the ancient and trying to move forward. He also saw the difficulties mickle most him were facing: the problems fashioning ends meet and living day to day in the turn-of-the-century south, and Faulkner brings this approximation to life in the sententious story, A Rose for Emily.\n Emily Grierson is an gray charr who desperately clings to the preceding(a) while the world around her is moving into the future. Her life is a mystery to her townspeople; formerly she died, however, the entire town was in attendance at her funeral, plainly to see what happened to her. In present ment this tale, Faulkner goes back and forth surrounded by the present of the story and flashbacks to expeditiously divulge each and every(prenominal) detail. Faulkner elegantly uses a non-linear timeline to rise the ever-present struggle mingl ed with the ideologies of the old south and those of the impudently south. dud Emily Grierson is a woman who embodies the old south. The customs, the etiquette, the unspoken rules, and thats the counsel she likes it. When the times begin to change, she retreats into her house, refusing to go along with the clean styles of living. Yet, when Miss Emily looks out her window and she sees something that she expertness like about the new south, his name is kor Barron.\nbell ringer is a Yankee- a big, dark, straightaway man, with a big vocalization and eyes lighter than his show  (Faulkner 31). He immediately becomes a center of attention and pleasure in the town. He is the ikon of the new south. The relationship betwixt Miss Emily and bulls eye Barron is a blending of old south and new south, the merging of both eras. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, She will marry him.  hence we said, She will persuade him yet,  because Homer himsel f had remarked- he liked men, and it was fare that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Clu...