Writers often use imagery to allow the reader more insight into the story by a visual representation in the reader’s mind. It can be used not only to just provide a more visual component to a story, but to aid in the telling of the story by foreshadowing or to mirror characters. In this passage from the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
“They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse-a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sunray.” (Faulkner para.4)
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In A Rose for Emily, light and dark or shadows symbolizes the Emily after her father’s death and the young Emily that once was. The inside of the house is describe as mostly dim and full of shadows which is symbolic death, showing that she is close to dying. Furthermore, The shadows also represent mystery, something the entire story is filled with, from the death of her lover, to her odd ways, her life is shrouded in mystery. Lastly, there is on mention of light in the selected passage, “…spinning with slow motes in the single sunray…” (Faulkner paragraph 4), symbolic of who Emily once was. Before her father’s death, Emily taught painting classes and almost got married, she could have lived a “normal” and happy life. That one small sun ray, represents that chance of a normal life that slipped away from her, that was taken away from her by the grief she was racked with after the passing of her
“They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse-a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sunray.” (Faulkner para.4)
Faulkner uses the imagery to not only provide a visual …show more content…
In A Rose for Emily, light and dark or shadows symbolizes the Emily after her father’s death and the young Emily that once was. The inside of the house is describe as mostly dim and full of shadows which is symbolic death, showing that she is close to dying. Furthermore, The shadows also represent mystery, something the entire story is filled with, from the death of her lover, to her odd ways, her life is shrouded in mystery. Lastly, there is on mention of light in the selected passage, “…spinning with slow motes in the single sunray…” (Faulkner paragraph 4), symbolic of who Emily once was. Before her father’s death, Emily taught painting classes and almost got married, she could have lived a “normal” and happy life. That one small sun ray, represents that chance of a normal life that slipped away from her, that was taken away from her by the grief she was racked with after the passing of her