Furthermore, in the short story A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner, starts his writing piece by saying “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral…a respectful affection for a fallen …show more content…
The short stories A Rose for Emily and The Swimmer explored this theme of time against the ability to keep some form of self-identity. This sense of self-awareness is when the protagonists reject the idea of a time change, and thus, create some form of incarceration within their own mindset. That incarceration within themselves doesn’t allow them to be open-minded towards new modernized ideas. Likewise, we sometimes keep going to the past without realizing that people change, ideas change, feelings change, and thus, sometimes we must adapt to these unprecedented changes. This generalized idea of time versus self-awareness makes the reader wonder if sometimes we take time for