In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, emphasizes on the evolution of industrialization using characters such as Emily to reflect on tradition. William Faulkner uses the symbol of death, society's view on modernization, and ignorance on tradition, highly developed throughout the last two centuries, that is changing humanity and its ideology forever. ... As people began to visit Emily's decayed fragile body, the imagery Faulkner uses is, " The rose when she entered- a small, fat woman in black with a thin gold chain descending to her waisther skelet...

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William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" is told through a pluralized first person point of view. ... "They could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain," (92) refers to the "thin gold chain descending to [Miss Emily's] waist" (92.) ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate