A Rose For Emily

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to suggest her former grandeur and her later ugliness. She was a “monument,” an ideal of past values but fallen because she had shown herself susceptible to death and decay. According Fetterley, “the violence implicit in the desire to see the monument fall”(194). Like the house, she has lost her beauty. A women who once was beautiful, later became obese and bloated. Both the house and occupant have suffered the ravages of time and neglect.
The interior of the house also parallels Miss Emily’s increasing degeneration and the growing sense of sadness that accompanies such decay. Initially, all that can be seen of the inside of the house is a slim half where a staircase is mounted into still move shadow, with the house smelling of “dust and disuse”(178). The darkness and the smell of the house connect with Miss Emily, “a small, fat woman in black” with a voice that is “dry and cold”(178) as if it were dark and dusty from disuse like the house. The similarity between ...

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