A Rose for Emily

The short tale A Rose for Emily was first published on April 30 1930 by American author William Faulkner. This narrative is set in Faulkner's fictional city of Jefferson Mississippi in his fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County. It was the first time Faulkner's short tale had been published in a national magazine.Emily Grierson an eccentric spinster is the subject of A Rose for Emily. The peculiar circumstances of Emily's existence are described by a nameless narrator as are her strange interactions with her father and her lover Yankee road worker Homer Barron.