Sex, Death and Hypocrisy: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

Hypocrisy is morality's twin and loyal companion to ideology. America's south, with its religiousconservative, prejudiced and patriarchic society, was and apparently continues to be especially fertile ground for hypocrisy's manifestations. The self-righteousness and sanctimoniousness at the foundations of the southern myth are gradually revealed in Faulkner's classic story