... overall. Having said, Americans began to focus so much on the modern world and neglect tradition. In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, emphasizes on the evolution of industrialization using characters such as Emily to reflect on tradition. William Faulkner uses the symbol of death, society's view on modernization, and ignorance on tradition, highly developed throughout the last two centuries, that ... monument" which signifies the fall of tradition that many people had identified. The next major symbol that reflects death is obviously the rose. As people began to v...

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