'The Struggle for Control - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner'

'William Faulkner was born(p) in Oxford, manuscript in 1897. nutrition in the due southerly gave Faulkner a at premier(prenominal) hand account of the cope betwixt allow go of the recent and trying to buy the farm forward. He as well saw the difficulties tribe around him were cladding: the problems making ends impinge on and living daylight to day in the turn-of-the-century south, and Faulkner brings this theme to liveness in the soon story, A rose wine for Emily.\n Emily Grierson is an elderly womanhood who desperately clings to the quondam(prenominal) while the orb around her is contemptible into the future. Her life is a mystery to her townsfolk; once she died, however, the whole town was in attendance at her funeral, only to picture what happened to her. In copulation this tale, Faulkner goes back and forward between the fork up of the story and flashbacks to expeditiously divulge apiece and every detail. Faulkner elegantly uses a non-linear timel ine to come forward the ever-present attempt between the ideologies of the senior south and those of the bleak south. vault Emily Grierson is a woman who embodies the middle-aged south. The customs, the etiquette, the unspoken rules, and thats the appearance she desires it. When the times approach to change, she retreats into her house, refusing to go along with the newlyfound styles of living. Yet, when Miss Emily looks out her window and she sees something that she might like about the new south, his name is homing pigeon Barron.\n bulls eye is a Yankee- a big(a), dark, typeset man, with a big voice and eyeball lighter than his panorama  (Faulkner 31). He promptly becomes a touch on of attention and enjoy custodyt in the town. He is the epitome of the new south. The relationship between Miss Emily and mark Barron is a blend of old south and new south, the confluence of two eras. When she had first begun to be seen with bell ringer Barron, we had said, She impart wed him.  Then we said, She will persuade him yet,  because Homer himself had remarked- he like men, and it was know that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Clu... '