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William Faulkner is considered one of America's most influential writers. Because of his deep Southern heritage, Faulkner tends to write from a Southern prospective (randomhouse.com 1). Faulkner was born Spetember 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi (randomhouse.com 1). He began writing poems as a school boy, but dropped out of high school in 1915 (randomhouse.com 1). Faulkner was unable to support himself solely by writing fiction; however, heworked as a screenwriter for MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, and Warner Brothers (randomhouse.com 1). Faulkner died July 6, 1962, of a massive heart attack (randomhouse.com 1). Before his death, William Faulkner wrote the chilling tale of Emily Grierson in a short story titled "A Rose for Emily." This nostalgic story is about a woman that shuts herself off from the rest of the world. The purpose of this essay is to review three critical commentaries of "A Rose for Emily." According to Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, "'A Rose for Emily' is a story of horror. We have a decaying mansion in which the protagonist, shut away from the world, grows into something monstrous, and becomes as divorced from the human as some fungus gro