Comparing the setting of Barn Burning and that of A Rose for EmilyWilliam Faulkner has written some of the most unique novels and short stories of any author and, to this day, his stories continue to be enjoyed by many. Both "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily" chronicle the lives of Southerners and their struggles with society, but Faulkner used the dramatic settings of these two stories to create an atmosphere unlike any other and make one feel the public like them. they were part of these southern cities. These two stories have many similarities in setting, but they also have many differences that make them unique and interesting. In many of Faulkner's stories, he tells of a fictional county in Mississippi called Yoknapatawpha. He uses this county as the setting for his story "Barn Burning" and the town of Jefferson from "A Rose for Emily" is also thought to be in Yoknapatawpha County. The story of a boy's struggle between being loyal to his family or his community makes “Barn Burning” exciting and dramatic, but a sense of awkwardness and unpleasantness comes from the story of how the fictional town of Jefferson discovers that he has been a resident for For a long time, Emily Grierson, slept with the corpse of her long-dead friend with whom she was having an affair. Another point is that both stories are set after the Civil War, but "Barn Burning" is set in a more rural area. In paragraph 2 of "A Rose for Emily," we read, "only Miss Emily's house was left, raising her willful, coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gas pumps." This statement shows that Jefferson is an urban society entering the industrial period. The Snopes family in “Barn Burning” lives in… middle of paper… due to the stench coming from Miss Emily's house, conflict begins. The neighbor, being of a younger generation, believes the courts should do something about it, but the eighty-year-old Justice Stevens responds by saying, "Damn sir, would you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?" The social context of the story and the different feelings of the characters create a unique setting and atmosphere. Whether a story's setting is insignificant or important depends strictly on how the author develops time, place, atmosphere, and social context. In Faulkner's “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily” the setting contributes greatly to the overall atmosphere and timeline of the stories. Faulkner wrote these two stories in such a way that the audience feels as if they are living in that dusty old house or in a farming community in rural Mississippi..