"A rose for Emily" symbolism analysis
The Emily Grierson’s house is representing how Emily as a social being, and mystery. Emily lived as an Aristocrat’s daughter where in her young age everything is taken care of.
“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. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood ;…”(p.2)
All of those words describes of the glory that once lingers in the house that was one of the best in the town in the most beautiful street. Then “But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood” beckon of a change that surely would follow after that. Because things were not that easy after Emily’s father left her.
“…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.”(p.2)
The present time comes, and the Grierson along with Emily are no longer loved. The house keeps the townsfolk’s derision to it. No one wants to see Emily’s house that once was glittering in glory. The house was but a traditional house of aristocrats with “cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies” that are glamorous at their golden time.
“…They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.”(p.13)
The way people treat house is so much alike they way people like to get in into Emily’s personal life, and without any clarifying efforts they set a
“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. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood ;…”(p.2)
All of those words describes of the glory that once lingers in the house that was one of the best in the town in the most beautiful street. Then “But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood” beckon of a change that surely would follow after that. Because things were not that easy after Emily’s father left her.
“…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.”(p.2)
The present time comes, and the Grierson along with Emily are no longer loved. The house keeps the townsfolk’s derision to it. No one wants to see Emily’s house that once was glittering in glory. The house was but a traditional house of aristocrats with “cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies” that are glamorous at their golden time.
“…They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.”(p.13)
The way people treat house is so much alike they way people like to get in into Emily’s personal life, and without any clarifying efforts they set a