Chronological Order of "A Rose for Emily" The events in the story "A Rose for Emily" are not in chronological order. Why did William Faulkner write...

Key to
understanding Faulkner's framing of the story with the old chivalric code of the ghostly Old
South's past with Part I and Part V, is his creation of a gothic horror with the gruesome
details of a past perverted by noblesse oblige and the lost moments of
youth tainted with age and grotesquely reclaimed in the present. Indeed, Faulkner has arranged
his narrative in the order of one of his statements:

Thus
she passed from generation to generation--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and
perverse.