Symbolism and physical setting in “A Rose For Emily”

This is another short story of Faulkner's in which the death of Miss Emily brings together the entire population of Jefferson. Jefferson is the main town in Faulkner's fictional county. Faulkner uses setting and a great deal of symbolism to narrate this story. Miss Emily was raised in the period before the Civil War in the south. An unnamed narrator, who seems to be the voice of the whole town, calls attention to key moments in her life, including the death of her father and her brief relationship with a man from the north named Homer Barron. In this short story; “A Rose For Emily” Faulkner uses symbolism, foreshadowing and physical setting to describe the life of Miss Emily. The story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the south after the Civil War. The physical setting of Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in the new times in the town of Jefferson. She and her antiquated home were almost a shrine to Southern gentility and an ideal of past values. She and her home were...