turning" (457). The narrator also states that Emily's hair
             was still a "vigorous iron-gray . . . like the hair of an active man" (457)
             at the time of her death. These gray images point toward death.
             To further emphasize Emily's waning appearance, the narrator allows us
             see how she changes with time. For instance, we know that as a young
             woman, she possessed a "slender figure in white" (454), which transforms
             small, fat woman in black . . . Her skeleton was small and spare;
             perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another
             was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged
             in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the
             fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal
             pressed into a lump of dough. (453)
             These vivid images foreshadow the death that we encounter later in the
             Another technique Faulkner uses to demonstrate the difference between
             Emily's world of the past and the world that she lives in is the shift the
             narrator makes from the past back to the present. At Emily's funeral, we
             are presented with images from the past. The old men who were there wore
             "brushed Confederate uniforms" (458). The narrator also tells us that
             "the past is not a diminishing road, but, instead a huge meadow which no
             winter ever quite touches" (458). This statement indicates that change is
             not always welcome or easily accepted. Emily and her servant represent old
             images of the town while Homer and the changes of Jefferson represent the
             present-day world. The shift from past to present is necessary to
             illustrate not only Emily's world, which is stagnant and unchanging, but
             also to show the contrast between where she lives and where everyone else
             lives. Jefferson is moving forward but Emily is not. Faulkner illustrates
             his ability to capture this contrast by beginning and endin...