The rose is attributed to femininity. The rose is also known as the symbol of achievement, completion and perfection. In other words, a rose can be seen as symbolizing the tests and difficulties of life to help find inner harmony, union and happiness. The purity of the rose equalizes the bliss of nothingness and harmony. Faulkner uses the rose as a symbol of Emily and how she lived her life.
Red roses as everyone knows symbolize love and passion. Emily obviously shows a strong love for Homer, but Faulkner does not show this to the reader until the end of the story. "The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. And upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. 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, 94) Emily obviously showed a love for this man, but did not want the town to know about it, and so she hid it until after she died. When only then would her secret be revealed.
Red roses as everyone knows symbolize love and passion. Emily obviously shows a strong love for Homer, but Faulkner does not show this to the reader until the end of the story. "The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. And upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. 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, 94) Emily obviously showed a love for this man, but did not want the town to know about it, and so she hid it until after she died. When only then would her secret be revealed.
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