Emphasis Preaching Journal
In 1931, William Faulkner published...
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In 1931, William Faulkner published, "A Rose For Emily." Emily Grierson, a member of
the old aristocracy, now penniless, spends years alone in her house. She demonstrates that
the saying about taxes and death being inevitable doesn't hold. She simply refuses to pay
the town what she owes for tax. She denies her father's death for three days. Later, she
poisons the man she plans to marry (but who isn't planning to marry her) and keeps his
body for years in her house. Faulkner's macabre story demonstrates how one can resist
the inevitable.
