In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, a gray haired woman, named Emily Grierson, fights against a generation much younger than her. In the battle against paying her taxes, Miss Emily had a mindset as though she owed nothing to this new generation. People of her age understood why she was pardoned of paying taxes. The reason for her feelings could have been because when she was younger, her father assisted the small town in a magnificent way. As Faulkner states in the short story, Emily’s father loaned money to the town and as repayment, decided against collecting his daughter’s taxes. Everyone in the older generation knew of his great dead and never again sent the bill to the address of Miss Emily. This resulted in her being out of
