The Importance Of Life In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

As we analyze both short stories portrayed we see that the writers describe the life situations of two women who have different life aspects with different scenarios. The author of the first story everyday use describes a girl who went to college despite coming back to her family who are hard workers, with more attitude, due to the fact that she is ashamed of them and would distance herself for her own well-being. On the other hand, the writer for the story “Rose for Emily” describes a woman who lost her father and for that reason her life drastically changes and becomes the towns talk. The author of everyday use writes the story in a more contradicting way he refers to the young girl as a disobedient and has an attitude towards his mother in a certain way. The conflict in this story depicts how most families are with one another, however in her case she is more sensitive …show more content…
The details the gave some clue to the audience were given in small but precise details to allow us to know what time line the story "A Rose for Emily" was interpreted by the language that was used this suggested that it was in the late early beginning of the twentieth century, for instance they would refer to an African American as a "Negro" which suggested that slaves still existed and by having the maids being only African American which was an act common during that time if we go back to the history books. However, “Everyday use” is based also during the 20th century however it was written a little further down the time line around mid-twentieth century however the southern young women in that story comes from the slavery heritage which was still happening during the “Rose for Emily” timeline. The writer tries to show how hard it was for a black woman to live and find hope in her life during this racist era and this affected many of the black