Emily
As Mr. Faulkner opens the story you should already come to the conclusion that this is a very southern part of town by him describing the cotton gins, cotton wagons, and gasoline pumps those were things we used years ago. There are many symbols used in this particular story that will show you that the south's past was not as glorious as Miss Emily makes it seem. All the symbols represent something but the ones that caught my eye were the colors white and gray. When colors are mentioned they tell a lot about the characters. The story opens letting you know first off that Miss Emily as died. So the plot of the story begins backwards. Mr. Faulkner is getting the readers attention by letting you know that she is deceased making you wonder what happened. As the narrator starts to describe the house he mentions that it was a big squarish frame house that had once been white. In the World Book Dictionary white is described as having the color of salt or snow, but this house had once been that color. Now the house was maybe off white. This color that it had once been lets you know that the house is very old and the color itself is deteriorating. White also represents angelic or happy an
The story continues to talk about everything that Miss Emily comes in contact with. They also let you know that the older men were going to do a check on her house because of her unfriendliness and they find that the house needs a lot of work it is also very dusty and that also represents the old gray color. I see it as though there was a woman trapped in her past that also wrecked her future because she could not get over some things. It even explains to you that Miss Emily is now buried in the same area that the representatives of those august names where the lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of union and confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson. Gray also represents aging in this story the older men who meet at Miss Emily's house are considered as graybeards meaning they had been around just as long as the house or Miss Emily had been there. You could also say that because her house use to be white the sun would shine very brightly through her window, but as time went by her depression and loneliness grew on her house and the dull look made the sun go in the opposite direction. Upon checking the house when in their meeting the older men come to the conclusion of not worrying about her dusty smelly house because they know how it feels to be old and not feel like cleaning anything, but there is one young man who feels something should be done. The choice of colors bring life into the story they allow the reader to take the colors and make so much more then what is given out of it. The dark gloomy personality of Miss Emily lets you know that happiness is far from her life. White was also known as clearly seen but the emotions of Miss Emily were never known unless you lived in the house with her and even the person in the house didn't know that much about her feelings. The symbols of color in "A Rose for Emily" represent so much more then what colors mean. You can also use white to symbolize her mind it was almost transparent to the world she basically knew nothing about what was happening in the outside world her mind was void thinking of only the things that happened back in the day. Anything that is dusty meaning if you open it or sit on it and dust comes out it going to be a rusty gray color. If it were not for the colors the story would be undefinable.
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