A Rose For Emily Passage Analysis

In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” the specific elected passage is heavily rich in details dealing with setting and imagery. The line that starts off the passage sends a clear message of a long enclosed space. “The violence of breaking down the door,” shows that entering the aforementioned space was no easy feat and therefore had to be forced. The manner in which we can approach this precise detail is by stating that this was a room for used for solidarity or perhaps its purpose was a sanctuary closed off from the world.
The author’s selected choice of words such as “thin, acrid pall as of the tomb,” conveys a coherent message of dense decay. When we think about a tomb an isolated feeling comes to mind. The word tomb alone
It can also be associated with youthfulness or femininity. The owner of the room could well be a female, according to the depiction of certain items in the room. Faulkner executes the setting so well that there are no second thoughts on how the room can be imagined. The form in which the arrangement of the crystal is described makes reader thinks about a life of prestige or luxury and class stratification. As indicated the owner of the room appears to have an important social status in society since everything in it has been so carefully aligned. A further confirmation of this is the silver that is mentioned by the following line in the text. “With tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured,” the description of the state of the silver itself gives us as readers a clue to just exactly how long the room and its object inside have been in isolation. Perhaps several decades have passed by, to which this is enough time to have even the monograms on the objects to be concealed. The usage of the silver objects gives us a small indication of a certain time frame this is happening in. In present times like today, people rarely use or have actual silver objects therefore we can rule out the present. Meanwhile, we can think this story takes place back in the late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds where the rich certainly owned and used silver