William Faulkner"Rose for Emily"

William Faulkner’s  is one of the most recognized american writers of the 1900’s. He developed and incorporated different types of literature as poetry, essays, play in several other forms in order to widen the reader’s imagination and language. A Rose for Emily is a short story whose characters take part in a diverse array of situations, and create a grotesque literary work of fiction around  an old woman, a town and the woman’s boyfriend. The violence or morbidity implied in the language is one of the most striking aspects. Published in April 1930 and reprinted in 1931, A Rose for Emily is an example of literary fiction as well as modernism. In a story in which everything sounds real, what happens turns out to contain an element of falsehood. This is a modernist characteristic which William Faulkner makes good use of. The plotline for A Rose for Emily develops in a very small town, where Colonel Sartoris was the highest authority. The Emily’s house is describing as a very big house, but devastated as the owner used as one of  parallelism by the author . The story begins with the protagonist funeral and from there, the author develop the tragedy. Ending with the dreadful discovering and a suspensful event. Is worth to emphasize that the author use a chronological order through the story leading the reader to a better understanding of the suspense end.