est 149) . Emily is also described as “Not monstrous, but rather looked like a girl with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows-sort of tragic and serene.”(West 149) . “ The suggestion is that she had already begun her entrance into that nether-world, but that she might even yet have been saved, had Homer Barron been another kind of man.”(West 149) . “Many stories such as this show all too clearly how well Faulkner can re-invent the direction of the reader’s emotions is the real aim of the commercial short story.”(Kazin 162) . Also A Rose for Emily would seem to be saying that man must come to terms with the past and the present.”(Lewis 157) . It does seem that A Rose for Emily is saying that a man must come to terms with the past, especially this is shown in the story when it tells how Emily refused to acknowledge the death of her father. It also shows how a man must come to terms with the present, in telling how Emily refused to recognize the death of Colonel Sartoris....
