Emily's house represents Emily's changing lifestyle, while indirectly representing the Old South. Both Emily and the house were once bright, beautiful and dignified, symbols of the Old Order. Her father was overly protective of Emily, keeping her in the house, while the world outside was changing rapidly. "It was a big, squari

Miss Emily is seen having a relationship with Homer Barron described with-- His hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove. (p.31) She planned to marry Homer Barron, who represented change. He represented the North as he was a commoner and a day laborer, but he disappears before a marriage takes place. He is well-named "Barron" because for they have no children. Emily dies barren of children. Again, love and family escape her. He returns and Emily does not let him leave again. She goes to a pharmacist to buy rat poison to kill the rat who would not marry her. The townspeople find Homer Barron's rotted corpse in a position of an embrace. In the dust they noticed that in the second pillow there was a long strand of iron-gray hair-Emily's lock of hair. A necrophilic Emily, one who is attracted to corpses, had in his death what she could not keep in his life-a lover's embrace. Like a rose pressed between two pages of a book, he becomes Emily's "rose" forever. William Faulkner skillfully uses symbolism to help describe the setting, theme and character development in the story.

There was even a "tarnished gilt easel" before the fireplace that supported a crayon drawing of M

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