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Literary Critique of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily is a macabe, if-not morbid narration of the polemical life and times of a derranged woman in a turn-of-the-century Southeren town. The story opens as a flashback, in which the narrator tells of the main character's, Miss Emily Grierson's, death. Miss Emily was a recluse, driven into her hermit-like stage via her...overbearring father's habit of driving away any would-be suitors with …

…in the town of Jefferson and its not the garbage dump...Given the reader has a basic understanding of foreshadowing he/she may easily see that when Miss Emily buys Arsenic and Homer disappears...forever, that foul-play's afoot. A quasi-sicko twist on the conclusion of this "ghost story plus," proves through auspicious use of an opening flashback combined with small forshadowing tid-bit hints here-and-there make an incredibly interesting plot development for such a short story.