Mysterious Emily In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

I wonder what or who do you think is the main character of the story. Mysterious Emily buried at the beginning of the story. But the story itself is told as if it is for the inhabitants of the city. On the tragic fate of Emily we know only by hearsay. Rumors and superstition played a huge role in the life of Emily. It is a kind of relic, fossil, which the city is cherish, and from the beginning of story, she is a prisoner of the role imposed on her father, and then the rest of the townspeople. While the whole county is moving forward, Emily is forced to maintain the reputation and live like some fossil in her family home.
Of particular symbolism of the story is related to the period of history, when the action of the story in the first decades after the Civil War between North and South and the abolition of slavery. It is no accident, Emily, whose family had so recently held a plantation and slaves, falls in love with hard workers who apparently represents the factories of the North. In this story of love it offers a small but important piece of American history. Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/a-rose-for-emily/summary.html
The story begins with a brief message about the funeral Emily Grierson, southern spinster old age, followed by the narrator's memories of old-fashioned and …show more content…
For example, if author would started the sequence of events in his story with the youth of Emily, then follow by death of her father, then after familiarity with Homer Barron, next step kill him, and then the funeral of Emily. In conclusion disclosure of the reasons for disappearance of the smell and Homer who’s corpse was found in the Emily bed. But Faulkner is changing the sequence of events in order to keep the intrigue to the end, and create emphasis for greater impact on the reader and to transmit thought. Retrieved from