A Rose for Emily Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is the remarkable story of Emily Grierson, whose death and funeral drew the attention of the entire town. The unnamed narrator, whom some people consider to symbolize "the town" or at least a representative voice from it, relates key moments in Emily's life, including the death of her father and her brief fling with a Yankee. Beyond the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story represents symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in "A Rose for Emily". The story's opening with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral foreshadows the ending. The outcome is furthe....

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