"A Rose For Emily"

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The paper discusses the use of symbolism in "A Rose for Emily", a short story by William Faulkner. The paper shows how Faulkner uses time as a continuous theme throughout the book, as well as other symbols. The plot and characters are also discussed.

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"It was not only that Emily living with death in literal terms in the form of Homer's corpse, but there was something important that died within her. For her, time and its unavoidable changes had died where the watch has gone invisibly into her belt, and her body has symbolically drowned in the motionless water that signifies stagnant time as for her time was no longer a mathematical progression (CS, P.129). She has sheltered herself away from all change inbuilt in the course of time as well as refused the external leftovers of progress, such as metal numbers above her door that was a delicate reference to mathematical progression or a mailbox that gave a visual representation of the communication she has severed (Zink, 1956)."

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