SOURCE: “Atmosphere and Theme in Faulkner's ‘A Rose for Emily,’” in William Faulkner: Four Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Welshimer Wagner, Michigan State University Press, 1973, pp. 192–98.
In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in Perspective in 1949, West interprets “A Rose for Emily” as an allegory in which Emily represents the Old South and Homer Barron represents the new order influenced by the North.
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