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Decadence in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
Summary: The setting of William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" is characterized by decadence, which defined the South before the Civil War. Such decadence was characterized by obscene wealth, slavery, and the aristocracy, of which Emily and her father were a part. Following the end of the Civil War and the forced change upon the antebellum South, Emily ends up not only in deep denial, making her able to disregard the reality of her life, but she also causes the townspeople to participate in her denial.
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