The story progresses through flashbacks, and Emily is heard speaking to the gentlemen representing the Board of Aldermen, and it is noticed that she is wearing a thin gold watch chain. It is not until a lull takes place after the spokesman announces the purpose of their visit, that they then,"... could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain". The watch is tucked into Emily's belt, and symbolically foreshadows a particular characteristic of hers to be learned at the end of the story. The hidden watch seems to sug

The most important symbol within the story is that of the flower and how its short life sees a bud, a blossom, and decomposition. Emily herself was like a flower, colorful and vibrant in her youth. She became a flower her father intended to keep long beyond its short life cycle. She would blossom, but never see the potential of an unadulterated life. Faulkner creates this image in the story when Emily takes on students for painting. This is Emily's last real contact with the outside world, before she falls deep inside the corroding inner workings of her mind. Eventually "...the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her...". Like the petals of a flower soft and nimble in action, they fall from the stem, which is Emily.

gest that Emily has a need to hide the effects of time, and a stronger one to control it. Time has taken all the things she has longed for in life. When her father dies, she gains the ultimate control in determin

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Approximate Word count = 652
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)