... writing is his ability to incorporate symbolism into his writing. In "A Rose for Emily" Miss Emily actually symbolized a remembrance of values and sins of the townspeople's ancestors. Miss Emily was considered a decadent and perverse relic of the South's ante-bellum past (Pierce 850) . Miss Emily was definitely a complex character in that her character stood for the beliefs that ... things that she believed and died believing them. Other characters also symbolized other things in the story. Colonel Satoris, the old negro servant, and the older generation of the Board of Alderman symboliz...

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