... white in the background-, which is equivalent to the house. The house itself is a symbolism of Emily's past and the present, as well as the town. As the story progresses, the house begins to decay and grow old as stated in this excerpt "It smelled of dust and disuse, a close dank smell the leather was cracked-, this evidently shows that as time goes by, things are beginning ... People respected Miss Emily's reputation, not until when she met a Yankee named Homer Barron. The town did not approve of this at all, that is when they started saying "Poor Emily."" This next sentence shows what ...

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... you can mash it down but it comes up somewhere else and very likely in a tragic form , and it was simply another manifestation of man's injustice to man, of the poor human being struggling with its own heart, with others, with its environment, for the simple things which all human beings want. It's that he was- that man is trying to do ... ideas (West 206). The reader can see the conflict Emily has being mired in the past and the reality that surrounds her in the present. Through illustration of the setting and symbolization, Faulkner gives the final conflict of life, which is death. A cr...

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