How Does A Rose For Emily Change

In the short story a Rose for Emily we are immediately given the progress of change, and the spectacle of it. “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.” After reading A Rose for Emily I believe shows the sentiment of the times for change, watching it end with godlike reverence, or welcoming it with a childlike excitement.
Emily’s character in this piece is eccentric, recluse, and mysterious. She refuses change. She is described as a stubborn woman who lives her life as she sees, given
Even as some begin whispering with their sympathies about, “Poor Emily,” she held her head high. “She carried her head high enough—even we believed that she’d fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted the touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness.” Emily, even in the face of change still refuses to let the nobility of her Southern families name go unrecognized.
In this story A Rose for Emily the character of Emily represents the South. In its historical society steeped with tradition. The socialites of the time who saw themselves above the lower class. With its grand homes, and servants who ran them. The only ones that were privy to see what happened behind closed doors. Emily’s stubbornness and eccentricity on the story represents the refusal of the South to accept any change, till its last breath. Like Emily those of the Southern states for too long held their heads high when their time had long since