William Faulkner's Short Story, "Rose for Emily" Term Paper

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William Faulkner's short story, "Rose for Emily" offers two radical different depictions of the South. On the one hand, the South is depicted as a place that is steeped in tradition and traditional approaches to things and to virtue. Indeed, this sort of traditional aspect is embodied by such characters as Emily, herself, and Colonel Sartoris, who represent an older and more traditional order. Secondly, Faulkner depicts a new and developing group of Southerners that re more interested in modernization. In the final twist of his story, Faulkner parodies the tendency of the older generation of Southerners to keep latching on to outmoded values that are "dead" or decaying.

One of the ways that Faulkner depicts the South is as a place that is very much married to tradition and he uses Emily herself as an example of Southern tradition. As an institution of sorts in this small town she represents traditional southern attitudes and the values of the Old South that still existed as a sort of holdover from the pre-Civil War days. For this reason, Faulkner literally lists Miss Emily as a tradition, herself:

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.

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Indeed, here Miss Emily is literally supported by the town as an institution that subsists upon the public coffers. Thus, despite her own isolation, she literally is publicly supported by the town as if she were either a charity or a historic landmark that required continual upkeep.

Faulkner also depicts the change in the South, however, and how this change in the social order of the South comes to….....

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