William Faulkner is written in chronological order to tell a story of once a idolized, beautiful and prestigious women during the Civil War. Emily Grierson, and her once beautiful home that had once been the most select street of the town all symbolize decay in Faulkner’s writing(Faulkner, 1949, p.79). The death of her father, the death of her one love Homer Barren, and the old ways of Jefferson town, seemed to make Emily’s battles with change, and modernization apparent as she got older. Emily’s father…
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