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Faulkner and the South

There are several key issues which arose in the mid-nineteenth century which led to the breakdown of the American Union - and eventually to the Civil War . One of the main underlying issues was the division caused by the opposing feelings about the issue of slavery - however it was the manner in which the Northern politicians forced the eradication of slavery . This division will be explored through Faulkner 's work A Rose for Emily and Long Hot Summer

p The Civil War was about division and after the war had ended , although some major points of reunification abounded in America , there was still a great sentiment of this division , which was felt especially strong in the South , as Glatthaar states Yet like Southerners , Northern whites had powerful prejudices against blacks .It was one thing , most Northerners reasoned , to regard the enslavement of the black race as cruel and inhumane it was another to ask Northerners to regard blacks as their equals or welcome them as neighbors and friends (11-12 . In Faulkner 's work A Rose for Emily , he explores these sentiments through the characters . Emily is ostracized from the community , all of them assuming she is too proud , too august for her contemporaries , and that she lives (or lived ) her current life in the past , stuck to the ideals of her father . This same statement could be a representation of America during this time frame of the Post-Civil War in...