Essay --

​William Faulkner started what might be a broad investigation of his southern universe of what he named Yoknapatawpha County (actually the zone of New Albany, Mississippi) with the short story â€Å"A Rose for Emily† in 1930.  At this point, Faulkner was 33 years of age, having experienced childhood in the covering and proper modest community environment he utilizes as the setting for this work.  On one level, this is the awfulness of one individual who was smothered and pushed to an enormous wrongdoing, while for a bigger scope, the story is an allegory for the manner by which the Old South would not deal with the twentieth century and the new requests of American culture.  ​The Civil War poses a potential threat over Jefferson, from the pride that the network takes in the fight that seethed close by to the memorial park loaded with respected dead and the old men who despite everything wear Confederate outfits to burial services.  The town’s civic chairman utilizes the title â€Å"Colonel† Sartoris for his entire life, and it appears as though the war was a limit past which families like those of the Griersons just couldn’t move beyond, as though they were solidified in time.  The experience ...