“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner as the author and is set immediately after the Civil War. In the story Faulkner was attempting to create a story concerning a woman in love that wanted a family as well as a normal life. When she does find a man that she supposes would give her the life she has been longing for she too finds that he does not truthfully want her, and in the end this causes Emily to kill him. Faulkner is a sparkling author who in this short narrative draws a picture of the life of a girl who was house bound most of her life due to her father. After his death she thinks that she could find an ordinary life of her own.