William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" portrays a post-modern culture of the old south. More specific in this story, images of death are fashioned by Faulkner's use of symbolism. However, in an unintentional and seemingly chronological way, death is symbolic within the past, present and future in the form of the stench, the house, and the arsenic.
When anything becomes a stench, either rotting or decomposition are occurring. As many of the townsfolk observed, a stench arose from Ms. Emily's estate. The stench presented here is a phenomenal symbol fo
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