Many authors relate their past lives to their books sometimes. William Faulkner uses southern gothic writing, flashbacks, and how he grew up to connect to the short story “ A Rose for Emily”. First, William Faulkner used his style of writing southern gothic writing. Based on what he learned southern gothic writing was interested in the code of anti-social conduct. He uses an old mansion and decay in the story “A Rose for Emily”. Emily Grierson keeps the body of her father, until they come to take the body away. Also, she kept the Homer Barron body who she was seeing until she died. No one discovered Homer Barron body until her father sisters went into the room that was locked. This is one of the connections so far. Secondly, Faulkner describes
