The misleading truth"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "How to Tell a True War Story" by Tim O'Brien are two admirable stories that share some differences and similarities. “A Rose for Emily” is fictional while “How to Tell a True War Story” is about O'Brien's life in Vietnam. Each author uses their own unique strategies to engage readers' interests. Both stories have many events that create different effects and cause different responses in the reader from a historical and formalist point of view. The order in which events are told in a story can create suspense by allowing the reader to use their imagination. Faulkner's events are by far not chronologically ordered. It begins by telling the death of Emily Rose, the protagonist of the story. The rest of the story describes Emily's life and the changes that accompany it. “Miss Emily was a woman deeply admired by the community in which she lived” (Faulkner 80). Her father's death, which occurred years before her death, brought her pain, but it also gave her hope. While her father was around, Emily had never been allowed to date. Her father thought no man was good enough for Emily. Once her father died, Miss Emily became a little desperate for human love. Faulkner first recounts that shortly after her father's death Miss Emily's fiancé left her. Everyone in town thought that Emily and her darling were going to get married. After her lover left her, the townspeople saw very little of her. Faulkner then tells what might be seen as the climax of the next story. Explain that one day Miss Emily went into town and bought some rat poison. By revealing this so early in the story, he challenges the reader to use their imagination. Now readers' views on Miss Emily may have changed. He went from feeling sorry for this woman to thinking he's going to kill someone. Towards the end of the story, after describing Miss Emily's life, Faulkner arrives in the present day where Miss Emily has died. She explains how Emily's cousins ​​came once they heard of her death and buried her. The cousins ​​all enter Miss Emily's room who welcomes them with a bitter smell.