Examples Of Social Change In A Rose For Emily

Social change is the change in time over cultural values and norms. It can be small things involving this generation, simply like how phones are used day to day. In older generations before ours, no one cared to ignore others as we pass them with a small device in their hands. It was ‘normal’ to walk around and greet people with a smile even if it was considered an awkward encounter. As time has flown by the power has been placed more around a small set screen than human communication.
Within the story A Rose For Emily, time flows by in the same way causing a similar reaction that phones brought to communication. Her power became a shell that no one seems to care to observe anymore. She walks around her old decomposing house with her life

As well as importance in certain things, just like fashion trends they hit a high for a short period but it is always changing in some new ways. People seem to find that sticking to old status or situations become boring or obsolete. Even when the story can be told with social change, going through the material written in the story it is clearly a gothic type of story. Gothic being dark or odd. It can be related to being gothic as being around a dark creepy setting like the house owned by Emily. Not only is the house set in a way that is creepy but also the weird things that took place inside. Within the thin exterior of the cold dark building she called home, she wanted to keep the bodies of those in which she felt she had a connection. Whether it be a reasonable connection or not, she didn’t want to be alone. Her connection with her father brought her to keeping his corps in the house as well as the other man. Her distance from other people around her only drove her to madness causing nothing but isolation and a craving for any type of relation she could hold or be close