How did William faulkner's life influence A Rose for Emily?

It is important because is more than just a simple short story. It is a statement on the attitudes of a an entire society. Faulkner uses the point of view of the first person plural spread over three generations of post Civil War south. This technique turns a simple tale into a statement about an entire society, because the "narrator" obviously must change over each generation. It seems all events in the story are described and interpreted by the townspeople as a whole rather than by one individual. If the attitudes of the narrator toward Emily Grierson are exactly the same over three generations, it means that that the attitudes of the entire society have not changed over three generations. Thus the story becomes one about the society itself as much as it is about Emily Grierson.