A Rose For Emily
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William Faulkner's "" tells the story of a young woman who is violated
by her father's strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily was
raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes place in the Reconstru ....
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.... in faded ink , to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without
comment," (40-41). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South
didn't have to pay. This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little;
after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all," (41). Miss Emily might have stayed out of the public eye after
these t ....
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