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What contrasts does the narrator draw between changing reality andEmilys refusal or inability to recognize change?
 
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  • A Rose for Emily contains many contrasts that demonstrate Emilys refusal to recognize change. For example, this refusal is suggested in the symbol of her invisible watch (par. 7), with its hint that she lives according to a private, secret time of her own. Her once-beautifully decorated house seems an extension of her person in its stubborn and coquettish decay (par. 2). Years later the house becomes an eyesore among eyesores amid gasoline pumps, garages, and cotton gins; it refuses, like its owner, to be part of a new era. The story contains many such images of stasis: when Emily confronts the aldermen, she looks bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water (par. 6)a foreshadowing, perhaps, of the discovery of Homers long-guarded dust.
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