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A 5 page paper which examines the symbolism in William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily and Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill and then a 2 page analysis of various poems. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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two women serve as symbolic of changing times, symbolic of the way many people in society hold on to a past society that no longer exists. The women in these
stories ultimately lose their minds in some way, because of this connection to the past that is long gone. The following paper examines this symbolic truth in the two short
stories. The paper then briefly discusses four poems: If by Rudyard Kipling, here by Grace Paley, Youre Missing by Bruce Springsteen, and Magic of Love by Helen Farries.
Symbolism in Faulkner and Mansfield In A Rose for Emily the woman who is described, throughout many times in her life through a
less than timeline narrative, is a woman who is clearly associated with times gone by. In this case the times gone by are the Old South. In the Old South
the rich people were the power and the prestige of any town or city and they often lived off of the backs of others, including slaves. When Emily is a
young girl she is sheltered because of her position in this society, her position as a "tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town"
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South because the story
is not told through the eyes of one of the townspeople but rather a very distant narrator. But, one sees that she clings to some old ideals and traditions as
she decides the perfect thing to wear to the park; her fur. She has a routine in her life in relationship to witnessing the outside world: "Oh, how fascinating it
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