While the town of Jefferson is undergoing renewal, renovation, and moving into a more modern era, Miss Emily is tenaciously holding on to the past, refusing to go gently into the future. She is trapped in a time warp, unable to move forward, which puts her at odds with the town that is looking towards the future. This conflict can only be resolved in one way; Jefferson will move forward, not backward to an age gone by. Since Miss Emily can not bear to live in any world but that which her father had helped maintain, she eventually succumbs to the pressures of the town’s leap into modernism. She does so, by committing murder and necrophilia in order to preserve her way of life. In "A Rose