Emily's house represents Emily's changing lifestyle, while indirectly representing the Old South. Both Emily and the house were once bright, beautiful and dignified, symbols of the Old Order. Her father was overly protective of Emily, keeping her in the house, while the world outside was changing rapidly. "It was a big, squari

sh frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been a select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores." (pp. 26-27) The house itself is decaying much like Emily, "It smelled of dust and disuse-a close, dank smell." (p. 27) Even the furniture was cracked and dusty. It is getting old like Emily. "It [the parlor] was furnished in heavy, leather -covered furniture. . . .they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thigh. . ."(p. 27)

Even Emily's cane has a "tarnished gold head," (p. 27). She is described as a dead-like figure: "Her skeleton was small and spare". . . "She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to an

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