"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is a remarkable tale of Miss Emily Grierson, whose funeral drew the attention of the entire population of Jefferson a small southern town. Miss Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War in the south. An unnamed narrator, who is consider to be "the town" or at least the collaborative voice of it, aligns key moments in Emily's life, including the death of her father and her brief relationship with a man form the north named Homer Barron. In short this story explains Miss Emily's strict and repetitive ways and the sullen curiosity that the towns people have shown toward her. Rising above the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect, and improvishment in the new times in the town of Jefferson. Beginning with Miss Emily Grierson's funeral, throughout the story Faulkner foreshadows the ending and suspenseful events in Miss Emily's life, and Miss Emily's other impending circumstances. "A Rose for Emily" tells the tale of a young woman who lives and abides by her father's strict rational. The rampant symbolism and Falkner's descriptions of the decaying house, coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay, and also emphasize her mental degeneration, and further illustrate the outcome of Falkner's story. Miss Emily's decaying house, not only lacks genuine love and care, but so douse she in her adult life, but more so during her childhood.
             The pertinence of Miss Emily's house in relation to her physical appearance is brought on by constant neglect and unappreatation. As an example, the house is stituated in what was once a prominent neighborhood that has now deteriorated. Originally the house was, " It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seve...