As a modernist, William Faulkner aimed at not developing a style. According to him style is one of the tools of the craft, and whoever spends too much of his time on developing a style, or following a style, probably does not have much to say, and in case of being beautiful, there is not too much in it. William Faulkner believes that the story commands its style, and in a way, creates its style. So Faulkner in his short stories does not use stream-ofconscious narration found in his major

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... It is important to note that Faulkner is stylistically a very aware author and has a purpose in choosing different stylistic technique in his stories. Accordingly, in "A Rose for Emily", flashbacks and foreshadowing is used in order to produce a desired effect.