William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany Mississippi in 1897. He was born heir to a family whose heritage embraced the history of the south (Weinstein 197). Little did he know, he would be one of America's greatest authors. One of the most frequently anthologized stories by Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" is the remarkable story of Emily Grierson, an aging spinster in Jefferson, whose death and funeral drew the attention of the entire town, "the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant - a combined gardener and cook - had seen in at least ten years." The unnamed narrator, which some critics have identified as "the town" or at least a representative voice from it, in a seemingly haphazard manner relates key moments in Emily's life, including the death of her father and a brief fling with a Yankee road paver, Homer Barron. Beyond the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story is sometimes regarded as symbolic of the changes in the South during the representative period. It is Faulkner's exploration of the exploration of the relationship between past and present that makes his work stand out from all the others (Magill 1184).
             "A Rose for Emily" is one of Faulkner's most intriguing stories because Faulkner experiments with complex point of view and organization. The principal contrast in Faulkner's short story "A Rose For Emily" is between past time and present time: the past as represented in Emily herself, in Colonel Sartoris, in the old negro servant, and in the Board of Alderman who accepted the Colonel's attitude toward Emily and rescinded her taxes. The present is depicted through the unnamed narrator and is represented in the new Board of Aldermen, Homer Barron, and in what is called "the next generation with its more modern ideas&
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