"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner / Part 1

The short story under analysis is entitled “A Rose for Emily” written by a world-famous novelist William Faulkner. He had been writing his major works during the most contradictory time in the human history – the antebellum and post-bellum periods. Though this literary epoch is mainly characterized as being gloomy and borderline depressed, Faulkner believed in the bright future of the USA and such attitude fully reflected in his works. William Faulkner is also famous by his experimentations within the literary field; he contributed a lot to the development of modernism and its main technique, the so-called “stream of consciousness”. Among the writer’s major novels are “Soldier’s Pay” (1926), “The Sound and the Fury” (1929), “As I Lay Dying” (1930), “The Wild Palms/Old Man” (1939), “Requiem for a Nun” (1951) and others. He also wrote a number of short stories, among them – “Victory” (1931), “All the Dead Pilots” (1931), “Red Leaves” (1930), “A Rose for Emily” (1930), “Dry September” (1931), etc. which are collected in a book “These 13”. No wonder that in 1949 William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.