Many works of literature carry a sort of element which strengthens the story and also gives way for readers to interpret different parts of the story as their own. It’s common for authors to carry symbols in their work to give the piece a deeper meaning than what is present in black and white; as does William Faulkner in “A Rose for Emily”. Faulkner discloses a story of an old and lonely woman disintegrating inside the only thing she has left – her house. He embodies different objects that one wouldn’t think twice about and gives it a double meaning to enrich the text and cause it to have a deeper meaning than what it’s associated with without looking deeply into the text. Faulkner effortlessly laces the story with symbols throughout to enhance …show more content…
Death doesn’t always have to symbol the loss of someone like it was when Miss Emily lost her father and had no one else to turn to since she wasn’t close to other family members. After Emily had Homer in her life, she didn’t want to lose him again since he has declared that he wasn’t the marrying type so Emily did what many women would do if the love of their life was going to leave – kill him. But Homer’s death was different from the death of her father, it wasn’t a loss that she would never get back it was a companion that she could keep as her own. “The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlast love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.” (Faulkner 306). Emily killed Homer not out of spite but out of the ability for him to be with her forever and never leave. Mentally, Emily could overlook the fact that he’s dead and see the man that she loved. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” (Faulkner 306). Emily continuously laid beside Homer’s lifeless body as if he was alive and still with her. To Emily not even death itself could come in between the loved that she shared with