One of the greatest themes in "A Rose for Emily" is the conflict between tradition and change. This example is clear from Emily's denying her father's death at the beginning of the story. Furthermore, it is also clear at the very end of the story when we discover her unwillingness to let her lover, Homer, to leave even after he has died and keeping his body in her bedroom for a long time. We notice that she refuses to let anything she likes go. As Emily kept living in the past and attaching to everything that, at some point, she believed that it belongs to her, she lived in a timeless empty world of her own creation. However, Emily herself is a tradition that stayed the same over the years despite many changes that happened around her, which
