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Authors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes-intangible qualities of the characters, places and events in their work. In the short story, “A Rose For Emily”, William Faulkner uses symbolic elements to define and chara ....

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... and decorated in “the heavenly lightsome style” of an earlier time, the house has become “an eyesore among eyesores”(Faulkner 204). Through lack of attention, the house has advanced from a beautiful representative of quality to an ugly holdover from another era. Similarly, Miss Emily has become an “eyesore” for instance; she is described as a “fallen monument”(Faulkner 204) symbolizing her former beauty and later ugliness. Like the house, she has fallen from grace. Once she had been “a slender figure in white”(Faulkner 207) later she is obese and “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water with eyes lost in the fatty ridges ...