While it's almost impossible to know exactly why any author or writer writes something—it is simply their craft, their art—by studying Faulkner's background and writing style, we can gather some possible reasons why he came to write the story "A Rose for Emily."
"A Rose for Emily" falls under the genre of Southern Gothic, which is the style or genre Faulkner is most well-known for. His work often features grotesque characters, the antebellum south, and...
While it's almost impossible to know exactly why any author or writer writes something—it is simply their craft, their art—by studying Faulkner's background and writing style, we can gather some possible reasons why he came to write the story "A Rose for Emily."
"A Rose for Emily" falls under the genre of Southern Gothic, which is the style or genre Faulkner is most well-known for. His work often features grotesque characters, the antebellum south, and other tropes of the South. However, in a letter to Malcolm Cowley,
"I’m inclined to think that my material, the South, is not very important to me. I just happen to know it, and don’t have time in one life to learn another one and write at the same time."
In other words, Faulkner was just writing what he knew because he grew up and lived in the south, and "A Rose for Emily" is another example of him writing what he knew.
Also, something interesting to note is that "" "A Rose for Emily" was published in 1930, and the story prominently features the large antebellum house of Miss Emily Grierson, so it's likely that Faulkner got the inspiration for the house in the story from his own house.
Also, it is noteworthy that Faulkner had many financial issues at this time, so he also could have written the story simply because he needed the money.
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