In "A Rose for Emily" we are guided through the life of Miss Emily Grierson, a newly departed spinster who has led quite an isolated life. She has always been regarded as a bit eccentric, but it wasn't until after her death, and the finding of a rotting corps in her bed, that people fully understood the magnitude of her eccentricity.

The story takes place in a town called Jefferson, situated in the southern states, some time after the civil war, possibly in the early 1920s when the southern states have gone through considerable changes over a relatively short period of time. "A Rose for Emily" is told in a third person point of view, with a narrator telling the story in retrospect. Although the narrator isn't an actual character in the story, he is very much involved. When speaking of the town he often uses the term...