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A Rose For Emily A Rose For Emily The Factors that Form the Character Emily Grierson The characters in a work of literature are not only formed by their characteristics, but also by the story. There are many factors in a story which shape the characters. These may include the setting, mood, and theme. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, the conflict between past and present, chronological order and generations, her physical appearance and the grotesque mood affect the way the reader views Emily Grierson. In the small town of Jefferson, somewhere in the south, lived a woman named Miss Emily. After her father died, the Colonel pardoned her taxes. This caused conflict as she got older since there was no written record of this information. During the two years after her father’s death the only person that left the house was a Negro man that went to get her groceries and tended to the house. As time passed, Miss Emily’s neighbors began to notice a foul smell coming from her house. The judge refused to do anything about it, so men of the town would deposit lime around her house late at night. The smell went away after a few weeks. The emily, rose, story, miss, time, faulkner, past, present, town, father, people, one, emily’s, house, generation, after, reader, death, way, smell, old, homer, dead, conflict, body, west, south, next, life, left, hair, father’s, between, been, age, 149, two, small, since, passed, now, main, different, difference, died, date, another, 150, 37, young, world