Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
A Rose for Emily
(1930)
William Faulkner
(1897–1962)
Notes
According to legend, Faulkner based the Emily Grierson of "A Rose for Emily" upon a Neilson daughter who married a Yankee. (Neilson's Department Store, Description of Map Sites)
aldermen: members of a city legislative body (Merriam-Webster). See also City of Oxford Board of Aldermen.
Jefferson: The county seat of Yoknapatawpha County, a county in northern Mississippi, the setting for most of William Faulkner’s novels and short stories, and patterned upon Faulkner’s actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi. (A Faulkner Glossary)
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Bibliography of Secondary Sources
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[Emily's “libidinal desires for her father were transferred, after his death, to a male surrogate--Homer Barron.”]
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