This story is set in the south where Faulkner contrasted the past with the present. The first hint of this is his comparison of the death of Miss Emily to that of a fallen monument. This comparison sets the scene for the reader to look and see how the new meets the old in the south. The description of her house in the second paragraph "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons …showed first 75 words of 508 total…

…showed last 75 words of 508 total…to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant...had seen in at least ten years"(p.71) In conclusion the setting of the story shows how one who lives in the past meets the future whether they like or not and no matter what they try to do or how hard they try to hide the future will come about which in turn will make them a part of history.