Faulkner uses symbolism to compare the Grierson house with Emily's life. This is emphasized throughout by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Miss Emily's physical deterioration and demonstrates her mental disintegration. Emily's life, like the house, which decays around her, suffers from lack of genuine love and care.

The eternal characteristics of Miss Emily's house parallel her physical appearance to show the changes brought about by years of neglect. For example, the house is located in what was once a prominent neighborhood that has deteriorated. Originally white 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) sy

symbolic because her lover was a modern Yankee...(Madden 1896)

Throughout the life of Emily Grierson, she remains locked up, never experiencing love from anyone but her father. The domineering attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, alone until his death. This is Emily's chance for freedom and to find love. She takes a lover, Homer Barron. However, Homer is not the marrying kind and may have threatened to leave Miss Emily. In desperation, she murders him, thus ending what little life she has. Emily can never marry nor take another lover. So, she clings to the corpse of her dead lover and lives as a recluse. In her dreary existence, there was only one bright spot, one "Rose." This was Homer, of whom society has robbed her. Like a wilted flower, she keeps his body, forever. Like a dried flower, it reminds her of the joy she had in her otherwise empty life.

South, she keeps her own personal rose, her lover, preserved in the bridal chamber where a rose color

Both the house and Miss Emily reveal a common stubborn arrogance. "Even being left alone, and a pauper, and humanized"(Faulkner 207) Miss Emily held herself "a little to high" for what she was. Likewise, just as Emily held herself "a little high" the house is presented as "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps"(Faulkner 204). Just as the house seems to reject progress and updating so does Emily.

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