A Rose For Emily - Time and Setting

...While time and location are important, consider also the way cultural environment is linked to setting. Think about how the story might be different if set in a different time, place/region, and culture...

Given the setting of this story, it seems to bare all the characteristics of an atypical "southern" city set in the post-civil war era. We find heavy doses of sexism, racism and denominational generalizations, blended with the fact that the whole story is told as if being whispered over coffee by the town gossip.

I imagine what it would be like if it was present day, I don't know, lets say Dallas Texas. I believe given the region still being southern and bordering Mexico, we would likely find the "help" being Hispanic, rather than African American, and depending on which circle the story was told in, you may still find the heavy dose of racism and sexism injected into the dialogue. Given the amount of popularity that "Miss Emily" had acquired in the story, I could easily see this story across the present-day headlines of a tabloid..."Town icon, found dead...later discovered: HER DEAD HUSBAND..."

I can see that this story could possibly exist within certain confines of present day, but concerning authorship, I do not feel that the amount of racist remarks could be held in a high esteem within present day literature, not without baring a negative connotation. It is interesting to study the progression of society as told through literature, but I am thankful that it is not (as)
common place to refer to people by slanderous terms, coming from a time where where the N word was accepted, we're gratefully being hurled into a time where our president is half African American. It may yet be perfect, but It is light years ahead of the time and place where Faulkner wrote his fiction. Ok, not light years, but at least a good 79 years.