Time Change

Furthermore, there are many contradictions in the story the encompass the theme of change. The major paradox is the main character, Emily. In the story, when the townspeople describe her death, they use the word “perverse”, but when her life is described, she was “inescapable, impervious, and tranquil.” Also, Faulkner constrasted teh past and present era of the stouth. The past, being before the Civil War, and the present, being after. The elements that represent …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…Emily herself. The picture of her father is just another symbol of immobility and no sense of time. When he died, Miss Emily refused to acknowledge his death. She stopped time, at least in her mind. From this point, Faulkner makes a smooth transition to a period of thirty years ago, when Miss Emily vanquished their fathers about the smell. The plot continues in the backward direction, demonstrating Miss Emily's lack of understanding of time.