The Emotional Tragedy of the Southern Belle Myth in A Rose for Emily and Dry September

William Faulkner is known for his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, where he created a series of tragic novels featuring female characters. Faulkner’s two representative short stories, A Rose for Emily and Dry September, portray the tragic destinies of Emily and Minnie who were oppressed by the southern belle myth and reduced to self-destruction. This paper is for the purpose of analyzing the causes of the emotional tragedy of Emily and Minnie through the comparison between these two stories.

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