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In "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner uses the elements of time and setting to foreshadow Emily Grierson's decay of life, physically and mentally. By avoiding the chronological order of events of Miss Emily's life, Faulkner first gives the reader a finished puzzle, and then allows the reader to examine this puzzle piece by piece, step by step. By doing so, he enhances the plot and presents two different perspectives of time held by the characters. The first perspective (the world of the present) views time as a "mechanical progression" in which the past is a "diminishing road." The second perspective (the world of tradition and the past) views the past as "a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years" Faulkner begins the story with Miss Emily's funeral, where the men see her as a "fallen monument"(I.1548) and the women are anxious to see the inside of her house. He gives us a picture of a woman who is frail because she has "fallen," yet as important and symbolic as a "monument." The details of Miss Emily's house closely relate to her and symbolize what she stands for. It i
The town changes, its people change, yet Miss Emily has put a halt on time. "When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it" (IV. The details of the setting throughout the story foreshadow this dramatic conclusion. The house in which she lives remains static and unchanged as the town progresses. However, he is a bachelor who does not want to settle down, and the town's people don't approve of him marrying Miss Emily because of his class. Cotton gins and garages have long obliterated the neighborhood, but it is the only house left (I. When he died, Miss Emily refused to acknowledge his death. Inside the walls of her abode, Miss Emily conquers time and progression. The narrator (which is the town in this case) describes the house as Romano 2"stubborn and coquettish"(I. As a final conclusion of Miss Emily's life and the story, her position in regard to the specific problem of time is suggested in the scene where the old soldiers appear at her funeral. These men have lost their sense of time as well as Miss Emily.
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