Symbolism In A Rose For Emily By Faulkner

On most occasions In order for the reader to understand what the writer is trying to say the writer needs to use different symbols to represent it in a more understanding way for the reader. For example, a dove it is a symbol of peace where there’s a dove there is also peace, and red roses stand for love and romance like when someone gives a rose to another person it shows feelings. Also black is a symbol of death or evil when a person wears the color black it can be because of a death like the loss of a love one. A ladder stands as a symbol of a connection between heaven and earth. If you take the ladder it takes you to heaven. That is how symbolism makes something the writers is trying to say more understanding for the reader in a simple …show more content…
a young woman named Emily lives with her father who is a very possessive man he never allows her to date any guy she met and especially not get married. Any guy that wanted to meet Emily her dad rejected him because he thought no man was ever good enough for his daughter. Later her dad eventually passes away and Emily is so hurt that she keeps her father’s body for two days in the house until they took it away from her. She was very hurt because it was the only man she had ever loved in her life and her only companion in the big lonely …show more content…
Emily felt something right away when she met Homer Barron for the first time especially because she was very hurt over her father’s loss she needed love and another person’s companionship since she was so lonely in her house. I read in a urban dictionary that a man with the name Barron is a player womanizer and a heart breaker someone who can make you feel good when you’re with him but can also hurt you every other time. He was a man that was not interested in girls or having a serious relationship he just played with them and used them. Homer was a homosexual he remarked it himself as it said in paragraph (IV) in the article “A Rose for Emily” that he drank with younger men in the Elks Club it was known that he might have been gay and just pretended to be interested in Miss Emily to use her.
The Grierson home was like a virtual prison. She had nowhere to go but home with the corpse of Homer Barron. Emily tried to make her house free and wanted to love someone in it she thought she would have that with Homer. The house was like a Emily herself a monument and remaining of dying world of southern aristocracy they were both stubborn and coquettish decay to the town’s residents. They were both a resemble of the old