A Rose For Emily Quote Analysis

The story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, published in 1930 was about a woman that is lonely that had recently lost her father and is obsessed with a farmer named HOmer. Emily gets too obsessed and poison Homer and kills him. She keeps his dead body and slept with his dead body for 10 years. Then Emily later on dies at the ending of the story. In the story there are three symbols that are important throughout the story. The most important symbols in the story is the strand of the hair, dust, and the house. The strand of hair is one symbol throughout the story and signifies the death of Homer. The strand of hair was a little something left of the man representing that Emily couldn't let him go and she still thought about him. In the passage the strand of hair is “ The physical transformation that Emily undergoes as she ages. Her hair grows more and more grizzled until it becomes a vigorous iron-gray. The strand of hair ultimately stands as the last vestige of a life left to languish and decay, much like the body of Emily's former lover” (Sparknotes). The quote is showing how even thought she murdered Homer she still could not let him or and she still deeply cared about him since she slept with his dead body for 10 years. Dust is a second prevalent symbol throughout the story and signifies the decaying of the house. In the passage the author
In the passage the author quotes, “It is a shrine to the living past, and the sealed upstairs bedroom is her macabre trophy room where she preserves the man she would not allow her to leave” (Sparknotes). This quote states that Homer thought Emily was a nice women, but did not know she was up to no good, and did not know his life had gone go by so suddenly. The neighbors could tell something was wrong with the house because it had gasoline pumps and other trappings surrounding the house. The house can also be an important symbol throughout the