"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner Question?

In "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner, what is the significance of the rose as mentioned in the title? Does the rose represent someone in the story? Is it symboic of something in the story?





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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner Question?
a rose means symbolizes love. Love was still there despite her condition.
Reply:this is what I had in my notes from summer school:





In interviews, William Faulkner gave these responses about the title of the story: "Oh, it's simply the poor woman had no life at all. Her father had kept her more or less locked up and then she had a lover who was about to quit her, she had to murder him. It was just 'A Rose for Emily'--that's all." "I pitied her and this was a salute, just as if you were to make a gesture, a salute, to anyone; to a woman you would hand a rose, as you would lift a cup of sake to a man."











The rose may be seen as a memory, a tribute, a graveyard memento for Emily. In this sense, the story itself is the rose. With this in mind, you should consider the well-known interpretation that Emily represents the South and its dying customs during the period of Reconstruction. Although Faulkner himself refused to give credence to a North-South interpretation, students may see in Emily the struggles of change and compromise that marked the South during its transition from an aristocratic agricultural society to a more industrialized region (much like change being Emily’s nemesis).











However, the conflicts in Emily are only part of this interpretation: the voice of the town reveals how the South sees itself and its past. At times, its ugliness is obvious, but time and circumstance may encourage a romanticized view of what South represents (a “moonlight and magnolia” idea), just as the townspeople develop a nostalgic memory of Emily when she dies. The rose, then, might be a tribute for a dying culture, or for the death of a certain vision of that culture. There are also those who argue that Homer himself, preserved for eternity, as the title’s rose. Think about what most women do with special roses they receive—they dry them so they can preserve them forever, just as Emily does with Homer (I know—sick).1