Faulkner uses Emily's house to symbolize Emily living a life in stasis. Emily's house is like a time capsule, a place forever unchanging and untouched by time. In her time capsule, Emily can live in an immutable and timeless world, where death does not exist. Death is strategically used as a symbol of change throughout the story from the beginning of the story at Emily's funeral to the end when the townspeople discover Homer Barron's body in the upstairs bedroom. Death was the one change that Emily couldn't fight, but that didn't stop her from accepting its ever-present presence in her life. They first learn of this when Emily initially refuses to acknowledge the death of her overbearing father. Stating several times to the citizens who came to console her that her father was not dead. In the end, the reader gets a final and disturbing understanding of Emily's death denial with the skeletal body of Emily's possible suitor, Homer Barron, lying on a bed, dressed in a suit and next to him was a single strand of Miss Emily's hair. . Finally, Emily herself is the living embodiment of tradition. Emily is called a monument in the first paragraph, furthermore, in the third paragraph the narrator states: “Long live, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation for the city. William Faulkner not only used Emily as a symbol of tradition, but also used her character to illustrate the constant struggle between those of tradition and those of tradition.