Hillari+Faulkner



__ America's Greatest Author: __ William Faulkner Please take advantage of this unique oppportunity to peruse this page about myself and my Southern Gothic literature. "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -Faulkner DOB: September 25, 1897 Where: New Albany, Mississippi My nickname is Bill or Count No' Count. I stand at five feet and five inches. My wife was Estelle Oldham who died in 1962. I won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. I am great friends with Humphrey Bogart. One of the most famous pieces that I wrote was "A Rose for Emily". Emily is stuck in a historic mindset and she lives within the past. It is uncommon that she is an African American that holds a higher status than multiple individuas in her community. Emily is a perculiar character and she does some odd things in her lifetime. Her father always had control of her, in all fashions; he kept her from ever having a relationship with a man. When Emily's father passes away she is still of the impression that he is alive. As she approaches the ladder years of her life she falls in love with a man whom would typically be seen as less than she. Emily's relationship with this man reminded her of the relationship she had with her father. At the end of my short story you learn that Emily has kills her dead father by poisoning her living lover. She keeps her father's memory alive by sleeping with her lover's dead corpse. Interesting huh? You know that these things really happen...you are just afraid to admit to the sickness and the reality of it all. For Emily... [|Click here for her story]

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