"A Rose for Emily," found on page 71 of the text, is a remarkable story of Emily Grierson whose death and funeral draw the attention of the town. The bizarre outcome is further highlighted throughout the story by the symbolism of the decaying house, which matches Miss Emily's physical deterioration and demonstrates her ultimate mental disintegration. Emily's life, like the house that decays around her, suffers from lack of genuine love and care.

The characteristics of Miss Emily's house, like her physical appearance, are brought about by years of neglect. For example, the house is located in what was once a prominent neighborhood that has deteriorated over time. Originally, white and decorated in "the heavily lightsome style" of an earlier time, the house has become "an eyesore among eyesores"(71). The description of her house reflects a time of both the past and present and was a mirror of Em

The interior of the house also reflects Miss Emily's increasing degeneration and the growing sense of sadness that accompanies such decay. Initially, all that can be seen of the inside of the house is a slim portion where a staircase is mounted into still wall, with the house smelling of "dust and disuse"(77). The darkness and the smell of the house connect with Miss Emily, "a small, fat woman in black" with a voice that is "dry and cold"(76) as if it were dark and dusty from disuse like the house. The similarity between the inside of the house and Miss Emily extends to the mantel, with the portrait of her father and Miss Emily sitting there. In the picture of a young Emily with her father, she was frail and apparently hungering to participate in the life of the era. After her father's death, she looked like a girl "resembling to angels in colored churches"(74). Inside and out, both the building and the body in which Miss Emily live

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