Every symbol in a rose for Emily has a very important meaning behind it.
In a rose for Emily symbols are used a lot in the short story. Miss Emily symbolizes the old south she had a depilated mansion in the middle of the town that around her was demonstrating growth and changing with the times was the last remnant of the old south. Miss Emily also symbolizes stubbornness examples of her stubbornness are not letting herself to know the fact that she doesn’t have to pay taxes.
Homer baron is a representative of the Yankee attitudes towards the greisens and also towards the entire south. He also represents post civil war carpet baggers and in a larger sense he is the kind of man that works hard miss Emily met him when he was working with all the workers. Homer also results in death. Miss Emily would rather kill homer than allow him to leave her.
Tobe was Miss Emily’s Negro servant he symbolized slavery because back then a lot of the town people would just look at Negros as slaves and he was a servant so he was also treated as a slave.. Tobe also represented death he was very quiet and still it was just as if he was dead and she didn’t tell anybody that homer Barron died in miss Emily’s