It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. ![]() WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant–a combined gardener and cook–had seen in at least ten years. The short story takes place in Faulkner’s fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional southern county of Yoknapatawpha. It is full of dark images – a decaying mansion, a corpse, a murder, and necrophilia. ![]() The most famous and as well most anthologized William Faulkner’s psychological short story A Rose For Emily evokes the terms Southern gothic and grotesque.
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