Symbolism In 'A Rose For Emily'

A Rose for Emily by walker has heavy symbolism that helps persuade that she laid next to her dead lover as the critical article by Clements and Bride explained. I agree with the article that Walker was trying to portray Emily as a woman who would sleep next to a dead body. I do not think that the story tries to emphasize that her role in the short story is equivalent to the old south. Unlike the critical article that expresses that she was a metaphor for the old south.
Emily would sleep with a dead body because of the evidence in the story of both her morbidity and her reaction to her father’s death. The critical article agrees with Elmo Howell that “Emily kept the body of her dead lover for morbid purposes”, as do I. Howell argues that the reason it is unlikely that Emily slept with the body is because it is inconsistent with the writing of Faulkner (CITE). I don’t believe that this is argument enough to convince anyone that Emily did not sleep in the same bed as her lover. When her father passed away she denied he was even dead for three days with the towns people pestering her about the body. When abandoned again by the man she murdered no one knew he was dead, without the pestering of the towns people she was free to perceive her dead lover as alive, or however she saw

So, she would continue live as it was before she poisoned her lover, which would include to sleep in the same bed as him as they fell asleep. Whether this is something Faulkner would write it is something he did write and there is