Symbolism In A Rose For Emily

Symbolism is found in every piece of literature that we have read and analyzed. It comes from an open window to a scarf made out of fur these are littered all over the short stories. They provide and inside look into the character’s feeling and situation. In the Story of an hour one of the first symbols you’re able to capture is the preexisting heart trouble that. This presents itself right in the beginning of this short story where it says “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble; great care was taken to break the news of her husband’s death (Story of an hour)”. It goes to show the reality of how unhappy she really is with her marriage and everyday life. A woman or any human being for that matter would more than
The house at one point is described to be fresh new and beautiful “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street (A Rose for Emily)” it resembles Emily in her youth also very young and pure even having plenty of suitors to choose from. As the story progresses and her father dies she doesn’t know how to cope with loss. She begins to lose her mind unable to move on she begins to fall apart. Just like she hasn’t moved on the house has not changed one bit throughout the years losing its fresh look basically stuck in the time when Emily’s father died. This can be pictured when the narrator says “But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores (A Rose For Emily)”. These symbols are all part of literature, and they give even the smallest object in a story a purpose. Symbols can be direct and to the point while you can also find symbols that can be interpreted in range of different