This paper examines the story by William Faulkner. William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily shows the author's usual insight into history as it continued to shape, at least in his day, ordinary and provincial Southern society. This paper refers to the now standard version, taken from the Norton Anthology of American Literature. Faulkner's characters both symbolize and explain the conflict between the past and the present in a southern community, and he has once again managed to convey his intimate knowledge of a world departing which he thoroughly understood in its sometimes confused and dTclassT characters. 4.5 pgs. 7 f/c. 4b.