A Rose for Emily William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" tells the story of a young woman who is violated by her father's strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily's father died and she found it difficult to let go. Emily was raised during the pre-civil war era. Like her father, Emily possessed a stubborn outlook towards life, and refused to change. Emily could have been seen as a representative of the old south. She represented the ideas and mores of a society that was crushed by both the war and its eventual defeat. This story, on the exterior appears to be little more than a horror story. However, it is clear that Faulkner intends to show much m