Past and Present in "A Rose for Emily" Analytical Essay by Top Papers

The paper describes how Emily becomes stigmatized as a past tense entity that has little hope for a future life. The paper looks at how Emily's tragedy begins a spiral downward, and looks at how the rose becomes a symbol of past prestige for the Grierson family, and ultimately is the symbol of freedom for Emily's death. The paper discusses how while roses can lay on coffins as respect for a person's life well spent, so has Emily forsaken the present tense and the future because of her family's fallen past.