The Change In William Faulkner's Life

William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. In the article “William Faulkner” it states he was, “regarded as one of America's greatest and most prolific novelists” (“William Faulkner”). Faulkner came from an influential southern family. His grandfather, William Clark Falkner, served in the confederate army, wrote the novel The White Rose of Memphis, and owned First National Bank. Faulkner started out as a strong student, but as he aged his attention waned and his thoughts were elsewhere. He quit school in the fall of 1915. A year later, his ambition seemed renewed as he started work as a clerk at his grandfather’s bank and began attending The University of Mississippi. Faulkner’s wanderlust lead him to enlist in the army during WWI. When he was turned away because of his small size, he hatched a plan to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. Despite his efforts, the war ended before he was sent into combat. Later on, he befriended Sherwood Anderson, who played a large role in Faulkner’s transitioning from poetry to novels. After some traveling, he again returned to Oxford where he went on a
This particular ideal was a strong component in the setting of “A Rose for Emily.” Both the north and the south suffered major changes after the war. They were constantly torn between age-old traditions, and the new order of the world. In “A Rose for Emily” this is represented in many different ways. Emily’s old house is the only remaining one of her neighborhood, the new town leadership insists Emily pay her taxes, and the townspeople are scandalized by her and Homer’s relationship. The narrator tells the story from third person point of view to act as an outsider and show everyone’s perspective of the situation. He tells the story in different phases of Emily’s life to show the most important, and strange, events of her