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Rose for Emily
Title: Rose for Emily
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 204 | Pages: 0.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Rose for Emily
William Faulkner’s use of symbols in “A Rose for Emily” allows for the story to be read from many different views. One can argue that the story is a parable of the conflict of the old south verse the new south, or that the story is about the dangers of clinging to the past, or possibly the dangers of repressing people.
Faulkner repeatedly used windows as symbols through out the story. “As they recrossed …showed first 75 words of 204 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 204 total…in the foreground, his back to her an clutching a horsewhip.” When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows.” “Now and then we would see her at a window for a moment.” “Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows like a carven torso of an idol in a niche.”
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