Symbolism in "A Rose for Emily" in many different ways. For example, Emily represents a monument and mental illness. She represents mental illness by killing her husband Homer Barron and sleeping with his corpse. The house represented death and a prison because Miss Emily didn't go out, but her companion went out shopping and came back. It also represented death because of what she did to her husband. The rose represented Emily's love and secret. This represented Emily's secret because Homer Barron, her husband, was dead in the house. This represented love because Homer Barron was showing his love for Miss Emily. Homer Barron represented death because his wife killed him with a potion she bought (arsenic). A lock of gray hair also symbolized lost love, meaning she lost both of her loves of her life. It also represented wisdom. Wisdom is the sign of aging, which means that it has already lived its life. There is another object that symbolizes concealment (Lime). They use lime to cover up the smell of the house because of the corpse that was there. Arsenic symbolized death: it was the potion that Miss Emily used to kill her husband. In “A Rose for Emily,” symbols are used ubiquitously throughout the novel. The character of Miss Emily herself symbolized the monument. In the article Symbols "A Rose for Emily" she says "the house, Emily seems out of place in a changing secret. The house also symbolized alienation. Emily alienated herself inside her house to avoid people and change." Emily is a monument because she was what all men wanted, she was locked in her house so as not to transform and so that everyone would admire her. Miss Emily also symbolized stubbornness in the article Symbols "A Rose for Emily" sh...... middle of paper ...... feet in her decaying house. "The townspeople gained respect for Miss Emily < they considered her a "Gierson." The lock of gray hair tells how time passes. "The town tells the time first by the gray hair of Emily, when she disappears into her house after her hair turns iron gray, the town knows how much time has passed because." of Emily's gray hair. In conclusion in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner , the characters and objects are more than people. They symbolized many things in A Rose for Emily "StudyMode, Inc., November 1, 2012Lamboard, Eather." gray hair" About.NpNd Web, March 17, 2014. Sparknoteseditors. Themes, Patterns and Symbols. Sprarknotes.sparknotes, Inc., Web, March 17. 2014