A Rose For Emily Differences Between North And South

In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” we see the significant differences between the north and the south. The north and the south is as different as day and night. They do not see each other as the way they are. The social normalcies are not the same and this causes conflict. The way northerners act are not the same as the southerners act. North and South have been two distinct regions. Raising children is a special detail in the lives of the working people of the South and the business people of the North, but differ in many ways. Both the Northern and the Southern has their own distinct way of showing their own respect towards elders and expressing their emotions towards each other.In the story the civil war has just ended when Emily is a young girl. She is still accustom to the ways of the south before the war had
He shows us in many symbolic ways how they are so different. As Emily and Homer ride through town in his yellow carriage the townspeople think it is gaudy and ugly. The townspeople have an old south sense of fashion and don’t like homer’s carriage. Homer having the new yellow carriage is a symbol of the new south. The townspeople who react as being horrified by seeing Emily and Homer parading around in the carriage are seen as the old south not wanting to accept the new south that has brought some of the North’s new modern ways. The townspeople are also horrified as a relationship between Emily and Homer begins. They see the relationship as a bad example for the children. They see Emily, an aristocrat, dating a day laborer. They find the fact that Emily is crossing the social class to date a day laborer as horrific. Not only is she crossing social classes she is also dating a Yankee. She has betrayed the south in general she is a southern aristocrat and dates the lowest class Yankee. By dating Homer she has crossed every old southern unsaid rule there is and the townspeople are