The Old And New South

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Nayomi Vidrine
Professor Cavell
English 1002, Section 09
27 February 2015
The Old and New South After the Civil War, the South had many adjustments that needed to be made. In Faulkner’s, “A Rose for Emily” there are many ways that the Old and New South are represented. Miss Emily and Homer Barron are used to depict the differences in the Old and New South, Miss Emily’s home and her neighbor’s homes are used to show the changes of the Old and New South, and also the murder of Homer Barron shows the Old South resisting the new changes. First of all, Miss Emily and Homer Barron are used to denote the Old and New South. Miss Emily is a true Southern Belle who was born and raised in Mississippi where as Homer Barron is Northern Native. Miss Emily refuses to use the postal service and pay taxes. “I have no taxes in Jefferson.” (Faulkner 83) This is clear symbolism of the Old South objectifying the changes being pushed through by the North and is still living in the past. “The old generation consists of clinging to the past and resenting or even denying change.” (The Explicator, Vol. 69, No. 4, 189-192, 2011). Homer Barron on the other hand is a Yankee that came to Jefferson to add sidewalks and roads to the town. “…and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee --- a big, dark, ready man with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face.” (Faulkner 84) This indicates that the new generation of the South is trying to become more modernized like the North. The next way the Old and the New South is represented is by the narrator describing Miss Emily’s home. Her home is big, squarish, with scrolled balconies. The narrator says it is in the “style of the seventies” (Faulkner 82). The narrator also says it is an “eye sore among eyesore” (Faulkner 82). This represents the modernization refusal of the Old South. The other homes in the neighborhood have garages and cotton gins were arising. This signifies the new generation of the South emerging and pushing for change. However, the townspeople did respect Miss Emily as elder and kept comments among themselves about her dust infested home. The last way the Old and New South is symbolized is by the murder of Homer Barron by Miss Emily. Since Miss Emily, the Old South, could not deal with the idea of all the changes being made in her life she had
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