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e South after the Civil War. Miss Emily is considered a “monument” of Southern manners and an idol of past values. When Miss Emily died, she and her house both became symbols of their dying generation.
 For example, Emily’s appearance falls down over the years. She used to be a beautiful woman in her prime, but when the deputy goes to her house to ask her about paying taxes, she looks much different than before. “…She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.”(杨立民，2006:103）She closes herself up in her house. In that aspect, Emily can be a symbol for the appearance of the South during its decline. Emily’s refusal of paying taxes and cooperating with the modernizations in the postal service can imply that the south doesn’t accept the social change, and sticks to its old tradition and convention. The north imposes taxes and the south doesn’t wish to pay. During the war, the Union Soldiers destroy a lot of the South. Emily appears to be a ruin of what she once is, just as the South looks beautiful before war and messy then. Miss Emily stays in the confines of her own home for a number of years after her father’s death. The South does not want to accept its defeat, just like Emily does not want to admit her father’s death. Emily’s refusal to her father’s death can be regarded as refusal to confess that southern social system has been collapsed. After her father’s death, Emily is alone. “She had some kin in Alabama…there was no communication between the two families”. (杨立民，2006:107) This can mean that after the collapsing of the allied states, there is no communication among them.
 When Faulkner describes Emily as an old woman, he mentions a gold watch: she wears around her neck. The watch itself is covered by her belt. Although the watch is unseen, its constant ticking is audible: “they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain”. (杨立民，2006:104) This serves as a symbol of Emily’s reluctance to observe the passing of the time and the change of the world as generations pass by. And Keeping Homer’s corpse is her challenge to time, death and frequent changes.
 Emily is a victim and also a strong-willed woman. She is never treated with contempt or disgust. She is viewed by people with sympathy and a sort of respect, though her personality is twisted and her action is grotesque. She also owns some virtues. Since she is a symbol of the traditional south, Faulkner tries to state that there still exists some splendid culture in the southern culture though south is doomed to be defeated.
 2.3 Homer Barron
 Homer Barron, a Yankee, “with niggers and mules and machinery”, (杨立民，2006:106) is a symbol of industrial north and its value. He is the representative of the Yankee attitudes toward the Griersons and also toward the entire South. The South is known for being traditional, and the North is known for being very adaptable to change. Homer Barron is from the North and also represents the next generation with its more modern ideas.
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